Wife-beater, wifebeater, or wife beater is a slang term for a man who commits
domestic violence
Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. ''Domestic violence'' is often used as a synonym for ''intimate partner ...
, particularly against his spouse or long term female partner.
It can also refer to:
Items stereotypically associated with perpetrators of domestic violence
* a type of
sleeveless shirt
* a nickname for certain alcoholic drinks:
**
Rum, made from sugarcane, sometimes called "the golden wifebeater"
**
Stella Artois, a beer sometimes called "Wife Beater" in the UK
Nicknames
*
Matt Prince, (born 1973) a professional wrestler whose ring name is Wifebeater
*
Chris Spradlin, (born 1979) a professional wrestler whose former ring name was Wife Beater
*
Sickie Wifebeater, stage name of The Mentors' guitarist Eric Carls (born 1958)
Media projects
*
''Wife Beater'' (EP), an EP by the metalcore band The Plot in You
{{disambiguation