What is "wipe out"

vb. (context idiomatic English) To destroy (a large number of people or things); to obliterate.

1. v. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through]

2. kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off]

3. eliminate completely and without a trace; "The old values have been wiped out" [syn: sweep away]

4. remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" [syn: erase]

5. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate]

6. wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" [syn: cancel out]

"Wipe Out" is an instrumental composed by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller, and Ron Wilson. It is a twelve bar blues first performed and recorded by the Surfaris, who were elevated to international status with the release of the "Surfer Joe" and "Wipe Out" single in 1963.

The single was first issued on the tiny DFS label (#11/12) in January, 1963. It was reissued on the tiny Princess label (#50) in February, 1963, and finally picked up for national distribution on Dot 45-16479 in April, 1963. Dot reissued the single in April, 1965 as 45-144.

The song – both the Surfaris' version as well as cover versions – has been featured in over 20 films and television series since 1964, appearing at least once a decade.

The term " wipe out" refers to a fall from a surfboard, especially one that looks painful.

Wipe Out is the debut album by The Surfaris, released in 1963. It contains the best known song " Wipe Out".