Usually means: Strict voting directive for MPs.
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  1. three-line whip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. three-line whip, three-line whip: Collins English Dictionary
  3. three-line whip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. three-line whip: Wiktionary
  5. Three-line whip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. three-line whip: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (three-line whip)

noun:  (UK politics) A directive to MPs from party leaders to vote in a particular way in parliament, despite what the MP might believe or what his or her constituents might like.
noun:  (by extension, humorous) An imperative order.

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