Wifebeating

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife. countable, uncountable

    "That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of wife-beating. alt-of, alternative

    "But the Clark-Darden experiment was better: mass-racist black-cheering of a wifebeating killer's release was an invaluable wakeup-shock to even the densest traditional civil-righteous Lib."

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"That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!"

Etymology

From wife + beating.

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