Usually means: Brief, intense, corrective punitive measure.
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  1. short sharp shock: Collins English Dictionary
  2. short sharp shock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. short sharp shock: Wiktionary
  4. Short Sharp Shock (Chaos UK album), Short Sharp Shock (band), Short Sharp Shock (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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noun:  (chiefly British) A regime intended to deter crime by making an immediate severe impact.

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