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Crime wave   /kraɪm weɪv/   Listen
Crime wave

noun
1.
A sudden rise in the crime rate.






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"Crime wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... had just let prohibitions enough alone—if they had only not been swept away by the high sport of gossiping about our Wild Young People, which struck the country in the summer of 1920. This gossip was an intrinsic phase of the virtue wave which always immediately precedes a crime wave. ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam



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