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Definitions
a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
Word origin
Deverbal from wipe out.
Used in a sentence
“The skateboarder had a nasty wipeout as she came off the ramp.”
“The wipeout of this industry could be catastrophic.”
“Ha ha! Did you see that wipeout?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Surfing spill”7 letters
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