Green’s Dictionary of Slang

wiped out adj.

[SE wipe out, to erase]

1. (US) financially ruined.

[UK]‘Jon Bee’ 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.
[US]S. Ford Shorty McCabe 92: If I’m wiped out by the time we get back [...] I’ll make you a preferred creditor.
[US]F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) I iii: With wealth in sight — I’m wiped out.
[US]M. Spillane One Lonely Night 128: He [...] got wiped out when vaudeville went out.
[US]P. Maas Serpico 167: ‘He used to be one of the biggest operators around, but he got wiped out’.
[UK]M. Amis London Fields 140: ‘Insurance?’ asked Guy doubtfully. Hope shook her head. ‘She’s wiped out.’.
[US]S. Morgan Homeboy 244: ‘I’ll send him some zuuzuus and whamwhams,’ he promised aloud before remembering he was wiped out.
[UK]J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 250: He’s a fuckin sucker, got wiped out.

2. (also wiped) exhausted.

[US]S. Longstreet Decade 137: I’m pooped. I’m wiped out.
[US]M.A. Crane ‘Miscellany’ in AS XXXIII:3 225: You can be hung if you are merely tired, in which case you are also destroyed, wiped out, and wasted.
[US]E. Bunker No Beast So Fierce 249: Mary spotted me, eyes twinkling. ‘You’re wiped out [...] What happened, your girl toss you out?’.
[UK]F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 258: Oz was too wiped out to notice or care.
[UK]Indep. Rev. 24 July 20: I feel fairly wiped out today.
[US]F. Kellerman Stalker (2001) 260: Leave Yonkie alone. He’s wiped.

3. (also wiped) drunk, intoxicated by drugs.

[US]E. Gilbert Vice Trap 19: He looked pretty wiped.
[US]L. Wolf Voices from the Love Generation 5: I was pretty wiped out on acid and mescaline, weed, and hash.
[US]J. Crumley One to Count Cadence (1987) 141: Somebody has brought two kegs [...] By dark I was really wiped out.
[US]Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 42: For the first two days he would just get totally wiped out on Denmerol.
[US]T. Wolff 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 .
[US]Eble Sl. and Sociability 45: Among the synonyms for drunk are [...] trashed, toasted, whipped, and wiped out.