crank

Plural: cranks

Noun

• a bad-tempered person
• a whimsically eccentric person
• an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
• a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
• An ailment, ache.
• An ill-tempered or nasty person.
• A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
• A fit of temper or passion.
• A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
• An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
• A baseball fan.
• A sick person; an invalid.
• 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.
• 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.
• Clipping of crankshaft.
• The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
• Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
• Synonym of methamphetamine.
• A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
• The penis.

Verb

Verb Forms: cranked, cranking, cranks

• To start or operate by turning a crank.
• travel along a zigzag path
• start by cranking
  • "crank up the engine"
• rotate with a crank
• fasten with a crank
• bend into the shape of a crank
• To turn by means of a crank.
• To turn a crank.
• To turn.
• To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
• To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
• To be running at a high level of output or effort.
• To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Adjective Satellite

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Adj

• Hard; difficult.
• Strange; weird; odd.
• Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
• Sick; unwell.
• Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
• Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

Adjective

• Lively and energetic, often in an old-fashioned sense.

Examples

• Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
• By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
• Crank it up!
• Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
• Despite the late hour, the players were CRANK, eagerly anticipating their next Words With Friends moves.
• Give it a forceful crank.
• He had to CRANK his brain into action to find a word that used all his high-value letters in Scrabble.
• He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
• I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
• I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
• John is a crank because he talks to himself.
• Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
• Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
• That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
• Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.

Synonyms

chalk, chicken feed, churl, crackpot, crank up, cranky, crosspatch, deoxyephedrine, fruitcake, glass, grouch, grump, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, nut, nut case, screwball, shabu, starter, tender, tippy, trash, zigzag, D, Donkey Kong, John Thomas, Jonathan, Master John Goodfellow, Percy, Yiddish), anaconda, bald-headed hermit, baloney pony, banana, birdie, bizarro, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, colloquial, coot, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dingaling, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, doodle, dork, down, eccentric, fire hose, freak, fuckpole, gherkin, glaik, hairy canary, hammer, hard case, hog, hoo-hoo, hooter, hot dog, hot rod, infirm, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, jock, johnson, joint, joystick, kielbasa, knob, kook, lad, langer, lingam, live one, love muscle, love sausage, love stick, love truncheon, love wand, machine, magnum, male member, man-meat, manhood, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meat stick, meatstick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, odd bod, odd duck, odd fish, oddball, oddity, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, p-word, package, pecker, pee-pee, pee-wee, peen, pego, penis, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, python, queer fish, queerdo, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rum, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (qualifier, short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, strange bird, strange fish, strangeling, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wack, wacko, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, weirdie, weirdling, weirdo, whang, wick, widdler, widgie, wiener, wild man, willie, willy, wingnut, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang

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