Definition of "wipe-out" []

• Alternative spelling of wipeout. (noun)

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• "The sub prime mortgage wipe-out was triggered by the expiring two-year teaser rates on loans with inflated appraisals."
• "I had one bad wipe-out last winter, on Lincoln southbound by the Paulina station."
• "Greg Benford's "Penumbra" imagines a near wipe-out by a gamma-ray burst—a scenario we know could happen."