crank
noun/kræŋk/
/kræŋk/
- (disapproving) a person with ideas that other people find strange synonym eccentric
- Vegans are no longer dismissed as cranks.
- Everybody famous gets crank calls and letters.
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- (North American English) a person who easily gets angry or annoyed
- Everybody—apart from a few cranks like me—will be content.
- a bar and handle in the shape of an L that you pull or turn to produce movement in a machine, etc.Topics Engineeringc2
Word Originnoun sense 3 Old English cranc (recorded in crancstæf, denoting a weaver's implement), related to crincan ‘bend, yield, fall in battle’, of Germanic origin .
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