crime wave

1. 1.

   a sudden rise in the crime rate

   Broaderrise

Questions about crime wave

What does crime wave mean?

crime wave means "a sudden rise in the crime rate".

Is crime wave a common word?

crime wave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.