crank
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Definitions ofcrank
- 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.
Synonyms: crackpot
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.
- 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.
- Strange, weird, odd.
- Sick; unwell
Synonyms: infirm
- (of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.
Synonyms: crystal, "crystal meth", glass, ice, meth, methamphetamines, methylamphetamine, speed, tina, tweak
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