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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

an oiled chest in a wife-beater torn by grasping hands

English answer:

a torso, covered with oil, wearing a tank top, with people reaching for and pulling at the tank top

Added to glossary by Shirley Fan
Feb 13, 2008 00:40
16 yrs ago
English term

an oiled chest in a wife-beater torn by grasping hands

Non-PRO English Art/Literary Music
Go-go dancers on the bar – boys, with one lone woman in tasseled pasties and leopard-skin pants. A flash of ass in cut-out chaps, an oiled chest in a wife-beater torn by grasping hands.
Responses
4 +15 a torso, covered with oil, wearing a tank top, with people reaching for and pulling at the tank top
4 -2 someone who mistreats his wife, his chest covered in oil and ripped by other hands
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Feb 13, 2008 00:40: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Feb 13, 2008 08:16: Tony M changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Responses

+15
23 mins
Selected

a torso, covered with oil, wearing a tank top, with people reaching for and pulling at the tank top

wife beater is a sleeveless shirt, like this:
http://eecue.com/img/images_pic-medium-27891-guy_in_wife_bea...
Peer comment(s):
agree KathyT : exactly! http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wife beater
9 mins
agree PB Trans : http://www.mtannoyances.com/?p=166 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeveless_shirt
12 mins
agree Michael Brady : Interesting! Amazing the things you learn here!!
18 mins
agree Bernhard Sulzer : indeed!
30 mins
agree Michael Barnett : Hehehe. It's one of those delicious slang terms.
32 mins
agree Michael Powers (PhD) : It's not used in my generation - but you are right. - Mike :)
37 mins
agree Tatiana N. (X)
52 mins
agree orientalhorizon
2 hrs
agree Shane Wall : Australian English: wife-beater is called a "singlet".
3 hrs
agree Tony M : Nice one!
7 hrs
agree kmtext : Also known as a vest (UKEn) or semmit (ScoEn)
8 hrs
agree Ken Cox : or maybe already torn on a previous occasion or occasions (but that's nit-picking)
10 hrs
agree V_Nedkov
10 hrs
agree jerrie
10 hrs
agree KNielsen : Yep--the idea being the kind of guy who would wear this is generally a wife-beating, trailer-trash type of guy.
13 hrs
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-2
11 mins

someone who mistreats his wife, his chest covered in oil and ripped by other hands

This is what I think it means!
Peer comment(s):
disagree NGK : wife beater = tank top
12 mins
disagree V_Nedkov : sorry, this time you have it wrong, Mike.. it is amazing what we learn here, isn't it :)
10 hrs
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