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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clamp down, crack downverb

    repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)

    "The police clamped down on illegal drugs"

Wiktionary

  1. crack downverb

    To enforce more stringently or more thoroughly.

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  1. Crack Down

    Crack Down (クラックダウン) is a run and gun arcade game released by Sega in 1989 and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in North America by Sage's Creation. It was also ported and released to a number of home computer platforms by U.S. Gold. The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007. It also released on Steam on June 1, 2010.

ChatGPT

  1. crack down

    To crack down means to take strict or severe actions in order to enforce rules, laws, or regulations and stop or reduce undesirable activities. It often refers to implementing strong measures to control or completely stop certain behaviors or practices that are deemed illegal, inappropriate, or harmful.

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  1. Crack Down

    Crack Down is a run and gun arcade game originally released by Sega in 1989, and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. It was also ported and released to a number of home computer platforms by U.S. Gold. The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Crack Down in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Crack Down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Crack Down in a Sentence

  1. Jamie Farquhar:

    Together they have increased the tail risk that the U.S. will look to crack down on it in some way.

  2. Matthew Vadum:

    In the President Obama era, the entertainment industry has been openly complicit in administration plans to promote so-called health care reform, for example, gleefully parachuting pro-Obamacare propaganda into TV shows, as the president tries to unilaterally crack down on firearms, it's not like he needs to put a gun to Hollywood heads.Zombie-like, they'll repeat any words he stuffs into their mouths.

  3. Dan Gross:

    We believe that on a few very specific fronts they can do more to crack down on bad-apple gun dealers, the very small percentage of gun dealers who sell almost every crime gun in the U.S., the ATF has the power to crack down on them and pull their licenses if they are responsible for business practices that wind up causing gun crime and Gun Violence.

  4. Vince Warren:

    We are in a crisis situation and we are here to ensure police let people voice their anger and frustration and don't crack down on protesters as hooligans.

  5. Chuck Grassley:

    The long delays in finalizing regulations to crack down on this practice are frustrating to those of us who want to stop this way of laundering criminal proceeds.


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