Definitions
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- noun An outdoor children's game in which participants try to maintain hold of hands as random movements by the leader at the head of the line increase the force at the tail, as with the end of a whip.
- noun Any
maneuver in a variety of disciplines that mimics the motion of the tail of a whip.
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Examples
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No one wants to be the tail in a game of crack-the-whip, and investors don't necessarily want to be exposed to the next country to fall into danger of default.
Euro-Bailout Fever 2011
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Then it was like a wild game of crack-the-whip, with everyone surging and running and pulling—and Audrey, at least, trying to pull in the wrong direction.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Then it was like a wild game of crack-the-whip, with everyone surging and running and pulling—and Audrey, at least, trying to pull in the wrong direction.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Every sort of production exploded, and every commodity market in the world found itself in a game of crack-the-whip.
Archive 2007-10-01 James Killus 2007
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Every sort of production exploded, and every commodity market in the world found itself in a game of crack-the-whip.
Ancient Traditions – Bushido II James Killus 2007
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She did not know what she would have done then, but the situation was taken out of their hands by a wild game of crack-the-whip that crossed their path the moment they stepped onto the torchlit grass.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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She did not know what she would have done then, but the situation was taken out of their hands by a wild game of crack-the-whip that crossed their path the moment they stepped onto the torchlit grass.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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The Vulture had seized upon his strategy-now that he had Spider-Man dangling at the end of a webline, he was going to play crack-the-whip against the Manhattan skyline.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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The tower looming up ahead now, recognizable by its wedge-shaped roof, was the Citicorp Center: another perfect place to play crack-the-whip.
The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001
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Eventually they broke away one at a time, like children taking turns at the end of crack-the-whip, to vanish into the trees on the far side of the lake.
Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988
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