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CLAMPDOWN
Definition of CLAMPDOWN
noun
A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from clamp down.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CLAMPDOWN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 74, 2 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 74, 2 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CLAMPDOWN starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACDLMNOPW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CLAMPDOWN?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 74 - and most players walked straight past it.
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