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Phonetics
/kɹæŋk/
noun
A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
Example: I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Example: Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
An ill-tempered or nasty person.
Example: Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
A fit of temper or passion.
(dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
Example: John is a crank because he talks to himself.(1800s) A baseball fan.
An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
Example: That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
A sick person; an invalid.
A penis.
verb
To turn by means of a crank.
Example: Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.To turn a crank.
Example: He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.(of a crank or similar) To turn.
Example: He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
Example: Crank it up!To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Example: Quit cranking about your spilt milk!To be running at a high level of output or effort.
Example: By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
adjective
Strange, weird, odd.
Sick; unwell
(of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
noun
A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.