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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
... from Denver: "Madame Pompadour, late of Chicago, opened a beauty shop here, and one of our up-to-date young ladies asked her if she was doing the hair in the crime wave so popular ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... to jump down and run for it," Athenais replied, "you're a fool. You'll not get far with a motor car pursuing you and sergents de ville abnormally on the qui vive because the crime wave that followed demobilisation as yet shows no ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance


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