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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word wife beater:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. wife beater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wife-beater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wife-beater, wife-beater: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wife-beater: Wordnik
  5. wife-beater, wife beater: Wiktionary
  6. wife-beater: Dictionary.com
  7. Wife Beater (EP), Wife-beater, Wife beater (abuser): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. wife-beater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wife beater (abuser): Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wife beater (abuser): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wife-beater: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wife beater)

noun:  Alternative spelling of wifebeater [One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.]

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