A-Shirt

Marcelleke (Flemish dialect)

Wifebeater but it should be called husband-beater 'cause my wife beats me whenever I say the word.

a-shoes

Experience leads me to believe that most people probably prefer "wifebeater" but the
"Lol that shirt makes you look like a poor person who probably commits domestic abuse!" angle doesn't resonate anymore. It seems pretty weird to me though. Like, I couldn't call it that in front of my mom.

"beater"

simmit

"tank" or "undershirt"

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wifebeater

tank

tank top

refer to it as a simmit but I find that most people my age don't know what that means.

Tank top!

Singlets are slightly diff, theyre firmly undergarments whereas tanks you can wear anyway (esp women)

Officially "tank top." If I think the audience won't be offended, "wifebeater" (or "boybeater").

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Tank

I say "undershirt" if it's the ribbed white under-your-shirt kind. I say "tank top" if it it's the kind with stuff on it that you'd wear by itself on a hot day.

A t-shirt can be worn under a shirt too, obviously, but it's something that just about everyone would wear by itself, and is already called a t-shirt. Which leaves "undershirt" for those ribbed, stretchy, white things that are specifically designed to be worn under your shirt.

(I think even people who wear them alone are generally wearing them in a kind of "yeah, it's like I'd normally have another shirt on but right now I'm just so casual I don't even care, man" kind of way -- it's worn that way to emphasize that you're stripped down to underthings!)