wifebeater

[Derrick Chapman]

>Maybe we can take advantage of the truncated form and start
>referring to them as 'egg-beaters'.

Ovi-flagellation.

Did the abusive and t-shirt-wearing Marlon Brando inspire the "wife-beater"
term? Was it a reference to the idea of the breadwinner coming home, taking
off the shirt, and beating the wife and kids as relief from the pressures of
work?

I'd never heard the t-shirt referred to as a "wife-beater."  I live in the
South--is this a regionalism?