Verb: wipe the floor
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
"Our team wiped the floor with our rivals in the championship game";
- cream [informal], clobber [informal], drub [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]
Type of: beat, beat out, crush, shell [US], trounce, vanquish