Definitions for Cranks

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Cranks crank

Spelling: [krangk]

IPA: /kræŋk/

Cranks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in Cranks (acknrs).

Definitions for Cranks

noun

1. Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
2. Informal. an ill-tempered, grouchy person.
3. an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause.
4. an eccentric or whimsical notion.
5. a strikingly clever turn of speech or play on words.
6. Archaic. a bend; turn.
7. Slang. the nasal decongestant propylhexedrine, used illicitly for its euphoric effects.
8. Automotive Slang. a crankshaft.
9. a crank vessel.

adjective

1. unstable; shaky; unsteady.
2. of, relating to, or by an unbalanced or overzealous person:
3. British Dialect. cranky1 (def 5).
4. Also, cranky. having a tendency to roll easily, as a boat or ship; tender (opposed to stiff).
5. lively; high-spirited.

Verb phrases

1. crank down, to cause to diminish or terminate:
2. crank in/into, to incorporate as an integral part:
3. crank out, to make or produce in a mass-production, effortless, or mechanical way:
4. crank up, Informal. to get started or ready: to stimulate, activate, or produce: to increase one's efforts, output, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to bend into or make in the shape of a crank.
2. to furnish with a crank.
3. Machinery. to rotate (a shaft) by means of a crank.
4. to start (an internal-combustion engine) by turning the crankshaft manually or by means of a small motor.
5. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by turning the crankshaft manually.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn a crank, as in starting an automobile engine.
2. Obsolete. to turn and twist; zigzag.

Origin of Cranks

before 1000; Middle English cranke, Old English cranc-, in crancstǣf crank (see staff¹)

Examples for Cranks

In this machine, the barrel was fitted with a crank, and rotated by handle.

An uncomfortable urinary infection is going to feel way worse than those few minutes you spent trying to crank out your work.

I belong to the “Soccer Hater” demographic – middle-aged Republican crank with long, blonde hair and a great pair of gams.

The wonderful reign of Queen Elizabeth has everyone worried about what will happen when her crank of a son takes the throne.

The crank is a person who holds views which to us seem ridiculous.

This crank is mounted on a crankshaft carried on the metal tube M.

Before the marriage it was already obvious that he was a bit of a crank.

Nothing now remains to be made except the crank and the flywheel.

Its center is drilled out and it is soldered to the crank as illustrated in Fig. 54.

I belong to the “Soccer Hater” demographic—middle-aged Republican crank with long, blonde hair and a great pair of gams.