regulate v.
(US) to take an action of enforcement; to punish or hurt.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Innocents at Home 334: If a thing wanted regulating [...] he would prance in and regulate it himself. | |
| Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 15 Oct. 11/3: The men were disguised, having their faces covered with sheep-skins and pieces of ddark cloth. It seems they have met for the purpose of ‘regulating’ some of the citizens of that neighborhood. | |
 | ‘Regulate’ 🎵 Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold / Now they droppin and yellin / It’s a tad bit late / Nate Dogg and Warren G. had to regulate. | |
| White Boy Shuffle 57: Up your milk money before I regulate you and all your punk-ass disciples. | |
| Campus Sl. Fall 9: REGULATE – set straight: ‘Don’t make me come over there and REGULATE.’. | |
| Teen Lingo: The Source for Youth Ministry 🌐 regulate v. To take an action of enforcement. To punish or hurt. ‘Man, if you don’t stop buggin I’m going to regulate!’. | |
| Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘[A] little brouhaha broke out in the bar and I had to regulate’. |