Usually means: Quickly enforce rules or authority.
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  1. crack the whip: Merriam-Webster
  2. crack the whip: Collins English Dictionary
  3. crack the whip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. crack-the-whip, crack the whip: Wiktionary
  5. crack the whip: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. crack the whip: Dictionary.com
  7. Crack the Whip (Steven Universe), Crack the Whip, Crack the whip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. crack the whip: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. crack the whip: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. crack the whip: Idioms

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  1. crack the whip: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (crack the whip)

verb:  (figurative) To make harsh demands in a position of leadership.
noun:  Alternative form of crack-the-whip [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.]

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