wipeout

Or wipe-out

[wahyp-out]

noun

1. Informal.,  destruction, annihilation, or murder.

2. Informal.,  (in sports) 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wipeout¹

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

Example Sentences

Major cryptocurrencies rebounded on Monday, after the space saw a $19 billion wipeout last Friday — the largest liquidation in crypto’s history.

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“Once a year having this transformative wipeout and getting all this new information — it’s a really cool thing to me,” she says.

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State courts in Maryland have already blocked one Democratic map that would have eliminated the state’s lone red seat, creating an 8-0 wipeout.

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One Welsh polling expert said the party was looking at two seats in an expanded 96-seat Senedd, but could just as easily face a wipeout.

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He was back on the campaign trail as his party suffered one of the worst electoral reverses in its history - a result he says could have easily been a wipeout.

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