wipe

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I mean I guess it's not that weird, I mean look at Transformers for crying out loud, how crazy and obvious of a wipe is a giant Autobot symbol flipping to reveal a Decepticon symbol as the episode shifts focus to the enemy?

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  1. transitive verb To subject to light rubbing or friction, as with a cloth or paper, in order to clean or dry.
  2. transitive verb To clean or dry by rubbing: wiped my feet before I went inside.
  3. transitive verb To rub, move, or pass (a cloth, for example) over a surface.
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  • No one can call me a coward Why don't you move against Zibhebhu and Hamu--wipe them out No cause. —  FSF - April2006
  • If I call out every booger and ass-wipe, I can put twenty-five hundred in the field, but only three hundred and fifty of them are A-listers, the Mackenzies can raise about the same, all infantry, and Dmwoski has about fifteen hundred, a tenth of them mounted. —  Map.html
  • Once I saw a group fall apart after a single wipe, apparently somebody feared something and at the same time the warlock AoE pulled additional mobs. —  WoW.com
  • I removed the remainder of the liner with a L'Oreal Skin Genesis wipe, and noticed that my lash line was a bit red and irritated. —  Blogdorf Goodman
  • Ideally people would discuss in a totally objective manner what caused the wipe, and use constructive criticism to do better on the next try. —  Tobold's MMORPG Blog
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian; see weip- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wipen, wypen, from Anglo-Saxon wīpian, wipe, rub, from wīp, a wisp of straw (= Low German wiep, a wisp of straw, a rag to wipe anything with); cf. wisp (a prob. extension of *wip).
  2. Early modern English also wype; from wipe, v.
 

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