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wipeout (n.)
also
wipe-out
, 1962, American English, surfer slang, from
wipe
(v.) +
out
. Sense of "destruction, defeat, a killing" is recorded from 1968. Verbal phrase
wipe out
"destroy, obliterate" is from 1610s.