Synonym: Methedrine, chalk, chicken feed, churl, crackpot, crank up, cranky, crosspatch, deoxyephedrine, fruitcake, glass, grouch, grump, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, nut, nut case, nutcase, screwball, shabu, starter, tender, tippy, trash, zigzag. Similar words: cranky, crank out, crankcase, crankshaft, rank, prank, drank, frank. Meaning: [kræŋk] 
n. 1. a bad-tempered person 2. a whimsically eccentric person 3. 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 4. a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle. v. 1. travel along a zigzag path 2. start by cranking 3. rotate with a crank 4. fasten with a crank 5. bend into the shape of a crank. adj. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.
n. 1. a bad-tempered person 2. a whimsically eccentric person 3. 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 4. a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle. v. 1. travel along a zigzag path 2. start by cranking 3. rotate with a crank 4. fasten with a crank 5. bend into the shape of a crank. adj. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail. 
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1 The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 
2 The plant can crank out about 6cars an hour.
3 Everybody famous gets crank calls and letters.
4 She's always a crank first thing in the morning.
5 Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two.
6 Zoff was originally dismissed as a crank, but his theories later became very influential.
7 Let's crank the car and go to the lake.
8 It's time to crank up the air conditioning.
9 The chauffeur got out to crank the motor.
10 The Prime Minister called Councillor Marshall "a crank".
11 He was called a crank at first.
12 It's time to crank to class.
13 He instructed his staff to crank up for an all - out fight against the nomination.
14 The old crank next door can't stand the sound of our lawnmower.
15 Crank up the TV.
16 He has a limited time to crank the reforms into action.
17 That will crank it up a few more notches.
18 A grunt ran up and told us to crank.
19 Right then, a crank breaks and the rider lands with full weight on the frame crossbar, then crashes.
20 Then they turned a crank on its side and the little radio came to life.
21 He became almost quaintly obsolete, like the handle crank on the automobile.
22 You crank the engine while I try to connect these wires.
23 It was an old car,(www.Sentencedict.com) and I had to crank it up every morning to get it started.
24 The pedals of a cycle are attached to a crank.
25 The reason this cumbersome arrangement was used was because the simple crank had already been patented in 1780.
26 But even without the construction project, she'd still struggle to crank out prose.
27 Trumpets sounded, press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks, and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras.
28 This was a simple affair worked by one-man-power, just the turning of a large crank.
29 Zimmermann says his unit can accommodate bass frequencies and crank out volume levels exceeding 100 decibels.
30 Many people are unaware of the recall because the bikes can work perfectly before the crank suddenly breaks off.
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