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noun

• a single element in a graphical user interface. For example: a button, tab, or text entry box. Possibly from "WIndow gaDGET."

  These widgets will all be aligned horizontally.

  Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

• a thing. Used to stand in for a real object, which may or may not have a name.

  Well, how long do we have to patent the widget?

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  Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

other

• "with".

  What's wrong wif dat?

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  Last edited on Jan 20 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 02 2010.

noun

• a tank-style underwear type t-shirt. So named for the association with low-class men who are physically abusive.

  I got some egg stains on my wife-beater!

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  Last edited on Feb 14 2013. Submitted by Phil H. from Santa Cruz, CA, USA on Dec 15 1997.

• a sleeveless undershirt.

  All the thugs wear wife-beaters.

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  Last edited on May 01 2011. Submitted by Nathan on May 27 1998.

• man's sleeveless white undershirt.

  The frat boy was wearing a wife beater and khaki cargo pants.

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  Last edited on Nov 08 1999. Submitted by Alexandra P. from Burlington, VT, USA on Nov 08 1999.

origin

• Before wearing a wife-beater as one's only shirt became a popular style, the stereotype existed that they were worn primarily by alcoholics or people who were too poor to buy outer shirts. One stereotypical American image of an alcoholic is someone wearing an undershirt and beating their wife.

  Last edited on May 01 2011. Submitted by Nathan on May 27 1998.