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| 1. adj. (slang) strange, weird, odd |  |
| 2. adj. sick; unwell; infirm | |
| 3. adj. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast. | |
| 4. adj. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated. | |
| 5. subst. 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 c | |
| I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle. | |
| 6. subst. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft. | |
| Yes, a crank was all it needed to start. | |
| 7. subst. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. | |
| 8. subst. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person | |
| Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away. | |
| 9. subst. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion. | |
| 10. subst. (informal, British, 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. | |
| 11. subst. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement. | |
| That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage. | |
| 12. subst. (US, slang) (synonym of methamphetamine). | |
| Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank. | |
| 13. subst. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word. | |
| 14. subst. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid. | |
| 15. subst. (slang) penis. | |
| 16. v. To turn by means of a crank. | |
| Motorists had to crank their engine by hand. | |
| 17. v. (intransitive) To turn a crank. | |
| He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank. | |
| 18. v. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn. | |
| He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank. | |
| 19. v. To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank. | |
| I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over | |
| Crank it up! | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining. | |
| Quit cranking about your spilt milk! | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort. | |
| By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking. | |
| 22. v. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn. | |
