wipes

Noun

wipe (plural wipes)

1. The act of wiping something.
   • multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
2. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
   • When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down.2009, Mary Ann Zoellner, Alicia Ybarbo, Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year, page 58
3. (UK, obsolete, slang) A handkerchief.
   • "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."1883, London Society, volume 43, page 101
4. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.

   Synonyms:

   wipeoff

5. (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
   • I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273
6. (UK, obsolete, slang) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
   • He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head.1894, William Tomkinson, James Tomkinson, The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns 1809-1815, page 48

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