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.
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
(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.
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