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What does crack-the-whip mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
  2. Any maneuver in a variety of disciplines that mimics the motion of the tail of a whip.
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The conga line of coaches and general managers in the National Hockey League undulates like a column of children playing crack-the-whip on the neighborhood skating rink.
With monetary union, the real economy of Euroland becomes something like a schoolyard game of crack-the-whip.
In corporate crack-the-whip, this job snaps the sound barrier.

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