boy-beater

boy-beater

A tank top typically worn under other clothes. Also known as a "wife-beater." You can't go out in just a boy-beater—put something else on.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

boy-beater

n. a sleeveless shirt or undershirt allegedly for women or homosexuals. (From the wife-beater.) They sat there looking macho in their tints and boy-beater.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • wife-beater
  • egg-beater
  • beater
  • on a tank
  • do someone or something justice
  • ain’t 1
  • go out of
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • let something drop
References in periodicals archive
The 12-inch-tall Bobbie wears a boy-beater T-shirt, a leather biker jacket and a bitchin' tattoo.