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wipe-out

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wipe⋅out

[wahyp-out]
–noun
1. Informal. destruction, annihilation, or murder.
2. (in sports) Informal. a decisive defeat.
3. a fall from a surfboard.
4. Slang. a total or complete failure: to suffer a wipeout in the stock market.
5. Slang. complete physical exhaustion.
Also, wipe-out.


Origin:
1920–25; n. use of v. phrase wipe out
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