Usually means: Cloths used for cleaning surfaces.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. wipes: Merriam-Webster
  2. wipes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wipes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wipes, wipes: Wordnik
  5. wipes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wipes: Wiktionary
  7. wipes: Dictionary.com
  8. wipes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. wipes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wipes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wipes: Idioms

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  1. wipes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wipe)

verb:  (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
verb:  (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
verb:  (transitive) To smear (a substance) with this kind of motion.
verb:  (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To erase.
verb:  (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.
verb:  (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
verb:  (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
verb:  (video editing) To perform a transition in which one scene or slide is replaced with another over time along a horizontal axis, as if one scene or slide is a layer being slid off the other.
verb:  (UK, slang, obsolete) To hit or strike.
noun:  The act of wiping something.
noun:  A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
noun:  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.
noun:  (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
noun:  A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
verb:  (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
noun:  (roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
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