A sleeveless undershirt. Origin: before wearing a wife-beater as one's only shirt became a popular style, the stereotype existed that they were worn primarily by alcoholics or people who were too poor to buy outer shirts. One stereotypical American image of an alcoholic is someone wearing an undershirt and beating their wife.
Wife beater, also wifebeater, and sometimes abbreviated as simply beater, is a slang term used in North America to refer to a tank top style shirt when worn as a sole, outer layer (as opposed to being worn as an undershirt). This term is often seen as demeaning and is often associated with the similarly derogatory phrase "white trash". "Guinea T" and "Dago T" are other terms for the same style of shirt; and arguably just as offensive, "guinea" and "dago" both being ethnic slurs against Italian and Hispanics Americans. The name tank top, recorded in English since 1968, is derived from its resemblance to a tank suit, a style of one-piece women's swim suit with shoulder straps. It's name derives from the 1920's term swimming tank which is an obsolete term for what is now called a swimming pool. Wife beater Also known in North America as muscle shirt in England vest and Australia singlet. "STYLISH IS STYLISH BY ANY OTHER NAME".
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