wiped out adj.
1. (US) financially ruined.
A Dict. of the Turf, The Ring, The Chase, etc. 52: ‘Cleaned out, quite’ lost every farthing ? at gambling, is commonly understood. ‘Wiped out as clean as a whistle,’ means the same thing. | ||
Shorty McCabe 92: If I’m wiped out by the time we get back [...] I’ll make you a preferred creditor. | ||
Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iii: With wealth in sight — I’m wiped out. | ||
One Lonely Night 128: He [...] got wiped out when vaudeville went out. | ||
Serpico 167: ‘He used to be one of the biggest operators around, but he got wiped out’. | ||
London Fields 140: ‘Insurance?’ asked Guy doubtfully. Hope shook her head. ‘She’s wiped out.’. | ||
Homeboy 244: ‘I’ll send him some zuuzuus and whamwhams,’ he promised aloud before remembering he was wiped out. | ||
Layer Cake 250: He’s a fuckin sucker, got wiped out. |
2. (also wiped) exhausted.
Decade 137: I’m pooped. I’m wiped out. | ||
AS XXXIII:3 225: You can be hung if you are merely tired, in which case you are also destroyed, wiped out, and wasted. | ‘Miscellany’ in||
No Beast So Fierce 249: Mary spotted me, eyes twinkling. ‘You’re wiped out [...] What happened, your girl toss you out?’. | ||
Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 258: Oz was too wiped out to notice or care. | ||
Indep. Rev. 24 July 20: I feel fairly wiped out today. | ||
Stalker (2001) 260: Leave Yonkie alone. He’s wiped. |
3. (also wiped) drunk, intoxicated by drugs.
Vice Trap 19: He looked pretty wiped. | ||
Voices from the Love Generation 5: I was pretty wiped out on acid and mescaline, weed, and hash. | ||
One to Count Cadence (1987) 141: Somebody has brought two kegs [...] By dark I was really wiped out. | ||
Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 42: For the first two days he would just get totally wiped out on Denmerol. | ||
This Boy’s Life 237: Chuck got drunk almost every night. [...] In the morning he would ask me what he’d done the night before. [...] I played along and told him how wiped he’d been . | ||
Sl. and Sociability 45: Among the synonyms for drunk are [...] trashed, toasted, whipped, and wiped out. |