Consider this sentence.
“A black-wife beater”
“A black wife-beater”
Your misplaced hyphen has just created two very entirely different meanings.
The first one would make you raise your eyebrows
The second one just makes you question the persons fashion sense.
I open my mouth and the words come out 
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
it’s white beater. epic misunderstanding
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