crank

Meaning of crank

noun
  1. 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.
    I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
  2. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
    Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
  3. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
  4. An ill-tempered or nasty person.
    Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
  5. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
  6. A fit of temper or passion.
  7. (dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
    John is a crank because he talks to himself.
  8. (1800s) A baseball fan.
  9. An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
    That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
  10. A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
  11. A sick person; an invalid.
  12. A penis.
verb
  1. To turn by means of a crank.
    Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
  2. To turn a crank.
    He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
  3. (of a crank or similar) To turn.
    He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
  4. To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
    Crank it up!
  5. To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
    Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
  6. To be running at a high level of output or effort.
    By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
  7. To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
adjective
  1. Strange, weird, odd.
  2. Sick; unwell
  3. (of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
  4. 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.

Information about crank

  • The plural form of crank is: cranks.
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Hyphenation of crank

crank

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • crank is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

crank synonyms

Meaning cranky:

cranky, tender, tippy

Meaning grouch:

grouch, grump, churl, crosspatch

Meaning crackpot:

crackpot, nut, nutcase, fruitcake, screwball

Meaning methamphetamine:

methamphetamine, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, glass, ice, trash

Meaning starter:

starter

Meaning zigzag:

zigzag

Meaning :

kook, weirdo, cock, dick, infirm, crystal, methamphetamines, methylamphetamine, speed, tina, tweak

Words that rhyme with crank

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