three strikes and you're out

  • 1three strikes and you're out — ˌthree strikes and you re ˈout | the ˌthree ˈstrikes rule idiom used to describe a law which says that people who commit three crimes will automatically go to prison From baseball, in which a batter who misses the ball three times is out.… …

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  • 2Three Strikes and you're out — Dieser Artikel oder Abschnitt ist nicht hinreichend mit Belegen (Literatur, Webseiten oder Einzelnachweisen) versehen. Die fraglichen Angaben werden daher möglicherweise demnächst gelöscht. Hilf Wikipedia, indem du die Angaben recherchierst und… …

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  • 3three strikes and you are out — Meaning Used by US President Clinton as a slogan for his policy of long term jail sentences for three time offenders. Origin Originally a baseball term …

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  • 4Three strikes law — Three strikes laws are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States which require the state courts to hand down a mandatory and extended period of incarceration to persons who have been convicted of a serious criminal offense on… …

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  • 5Three strikes — „Three strikes (and you are out)“ („Drei Verstöße (und du bist draußen)“) ist eine umgangssprachliche Metapher dafür, dass nach zwei Verfehlungen beim dritten Mal eine besonders schwere Strafe ausgesprochen wird. Der Begriff stammt aus dem… …

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  • 6Three Strikes (comics) — Three Strikes is a black white comic book series from Oni Press written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, featuring art by Brian Hurtt. Three Strikes is a crime drama about Rey Quintana, a young man with a troubled past who is trying to… …

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  • 7three strikes — noun US legislation which makes an offender s third felony punishable by life imprisonment or other severe sentence. Origin 1990s: from the phr. three strikes and you re out (with allusion to baseball) …

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  • 8three strikes — n. [usu. as adj.] legislation providing that an offender s third felony is punishable by life imprisonment or another severe sentence Origin: 1990s: from the phrase three strikes and you re out (with allusion to baseball) …

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  • 9(the) three strikes rule — ˌthree strikes and you re ˈout | the ˌthree ˈstrikes rule idiom used to describe a law which says that people who commit three crimes will automatically go to prison From baseball, in which a batter who misses the ball three times is out.… …

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  • 10three strikes, you're out — n.    recent (beginning 1994) legislation enacted in several states (and proposed in many others, as well as possible federal law) which makes life terms (or extremely long terms without parole) mandatory for criminals who have been convicted of… …

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