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crank

[krangk] / kræŋk /
NOUN
a device for revolving a shaft
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NOUN
a person with an obsession
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NOUN
an ill-natured person
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Example Sentences

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A manual window crank comes standard in the Slate truck.

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, the U.S. has the supply chain to crank out superior chips.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the Delaware portion of the Permian, its most prolific region, drillers crank out between 5 and 6 barrels of water, on average, for every barrel of oil.

From The Wall Street Journal

I could be a crank and say I can’t wait for baseball to squander this momentum, or I could savor the sport-saving caffeine of the pitch clock and the Fall Classic’s screaming return from near-irrelevance.

From The Wall Street Journal

They could crank up the returns with borrowed money without having to worry that you’d want to pull out in a downturn.

From The Wall Street Journal