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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



... 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
... 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


Words linked to "Crime wave" :   rise


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