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wipeout

or wipe-out

[ wahyp-out ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Informal. destruction, annihilation, or murder.
Informal. (in sports) a decisive defeat.
a fall from a surfboard.
Slang. a total or complete failure:
to suffer a wipeout in the stock market.
Slang. complete physical exhaustion.

Origin of wipeout¹

First recorded in 1920–25; noun use of verb phrase wipe out

The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters.

So 2018 will shape up as another wipeout, and the Senate will flip back to the GOP again.

So Wisconsin was his only hope of avoiding a triple wipeout.

If Santorum had been able to face Romney one-on-one it would have been a wipeout.

As Republicans faced their own wipeout in 2006, conservative commentators penned plenty of pieces along the same lines.

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