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1.nounA 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.nounThe act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft."Yes, a crank was all it needed to start."
3.nounAny bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
4.nounAn ill-tempered or nasty person."Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away."
5.nounA twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
6.nounA fit of temper or passion.
7.noun(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.noun(1800s) A baseball fan.
9.nounAn advocate of a pseudoscience movement."That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage."
10.nounA twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
11.nounA sick person; an invalid.
12.nounA penis.
13.verbTo turn by means of a crank."Motorists had to crank their engine by hand."
14.verbTo turn a crank."He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank."
15.verb(of a crank or similar) To turn."He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank."
16.verbTo cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank."Crank it up!"
17.verbTo act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining."Quit cranking about your spilt milk!"
18.verbTo be running at a high level of output or effort."By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking."
19.verbTo run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
20.adjectiveStrange, weird, odd.
21.adjectiveSick; unwell
22.adjective(of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
23.adjectiveFull of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
24.nounA highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.