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1a bar and handle in the shape of an L that you pull or turn to produce movement in a machine, etc.
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- 2a person who easily gets angry or annoyed The old crank next door can't stand the sound of our lawnmower.
- 3(disapproving) a person with ideas that other people find strange synonym eccentric Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. Everybody famous gets crank calls and letters.
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