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crackdown
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also crack down; 1935, from the verbal phrase (1915), from crack (v.) + down (adv.); probably from the sense of "to shoot at" (1913).\n\nThese scab contractors probably think that they have us whipped, but they are badly mistaken. With the reorganization of the Building Trades Council, which is progressing nicely, we will be in a position to cope with them and when we do crack down on them they will have to come across or get out.
["Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators," September 1915]
Wiktionary
n. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement
WordNet
n. severely repressive actions
Wikipedia
Crackdown is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Realtime Worlds and distributed by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It was released in North America on February 20, 2007, and worldwide by February 23, 2007. Crackdown was conceived by Realtime Worlds founder, David Jones, who also created Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings.
Set in the fictional Pacific City, the player controls a biologically enhanced Agent, tasked with defeating three crime lords and their organized crime syndicates. The Agent's abilities improve by defeating both crime lords and their supporters, as well as by completing optional activities, such as street races and scavenger hunts. The gameplay is nonlinear: instead of following a rigid mission sequence, players are free to select the approach to completing their missions and activities. The game features a two-player cooperative play mode via Xbox Live.
Crackdown, initially planned for release on the original Xbox console, was envisioned as a vast world in which players could experiment and explore freely. Microsoft Game Studios bundled specifically marked copies of Crackdown with an access code to the multiplayer test version of the much-anticipated Halo 3 Beta. The game sold 1.5 million copies in its first six months of release. It received critical acclaim and has garnered several awards for its innovative gameplay. A sequel, Crackdown 2, was released in July 2010 by Ruffian Games without Jones' input, and a third title is planned for Xbox One in 2017, with support from Jones.
Usage examples of "crackdown".
The rhetoric of law enforcement made it clear that there was, in fact, a concerted crackdown on hackers in progress.
The civil libertarians nevertheless enjoyed the greatest success of any of the groups in the Crackdown of 1990.
Barlow scowling in a grim Wyoming snowscape, with long black coat, dark hat, a Macintosh SE30 propped on a fencepost and an awesome frontier rifle tucked under one arm, will be the single most striking visual image of the Hacker Crackdown.
Secret Service The Secret Service Battles the Boodlers A Walk Downtown FCIC: The Cutting-Edge Mess Cyberspace Rangers FLETC: Training the Hacker-Trackers Part 4: THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS NuPrometheus + FBI = Grateful Dead Whole Earth + Computer Revolution = WELL Phiber Runs Underground and Acid Spikes the Well The Trial of Knight Lightning Shadowhawk Plummets to Earth Kyrie in the Confessional $79,499 A Scholar Investigates Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Electronic Afterword to The Hacker Crackdown, Halloween 1993 THE HACKER Crackdown Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling Preface to the Electronic Release of The Hacker Crackdown January 1, 1994--Austin, Texas Hi, I'm Bruce Sterling, the author of this electronic book.
Secret Service / The Secret Service Battles the Boodlers / A Walk Downtown / FCIC: The Cutting-Edge Mess / Cyberspace Rangers / FLETC: Training the Hacker-Trackers Part 4: THE CIVIL LIBERTARIANS NuPrometheus + FBI = Grateful Dead / Whole Earth + Computer Revolution = WELL / Phiber Runs Underground and Acid Spikes the Well / The Trial of Knight Lightning / Shadowhawk Plummets to Earth / Kyrie in the Confessional / $79,499 / A Scholar Investigates / Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Electronic Afterword to THE HACKER CRACKDOWN, Halloween 1993 Preface to the Electronic Release of THE HACKER CRACKDOWN October 31, 1993--Austin, Texas Hi, I'm Bruce Sterling, the author of this electronic book.
When drug shipments were bogged down because of periodic governmental crackdowns, Nemeroff could move them.
And we have it again in the peace of Moscow — spies, informers, police crackdowns, and all.
Three had been hanged as common thieves during crackdowns by the Prince's magistrates.
The company has its easy times and it has its crackdowns, and both of us can remember when toilet paper didn’t have stuff in it to break it down so you can’t make press-paper anymore, you got to use those damn cards you stick into these damn readers that we don’t know where the hell they connect to.
More rationing of almost every conceivable item, curfews, lights out, crackdowns on any dissident activity…all of these and many more policies were being instituted as allied forces pressed closer towards China from the northeast, from the east and from the south.
As public commentary, and controversy, began to mount about the Hacker Crackdown, this Arizonan state official began to take a higher and higher public profile.
It was just enough harassment to jangle the nerves of the most experienced, steady veteran fighter, but not enough to warrant a stricter crackdown on fireworks or noisemakers in Prizren.