transcription, транскрипция: [ kræŋk ]
( cranks, cranking, cranked)
1.
If you call someone a crank , you think their ideas or behaviour are strange. ( INFORMAL )
The Prime Minister called Councillor Marshall ‘a crank’...
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]
2.
A crank is a device that you turn in order to make something move.
N-COUNT
3.
If you crank an engine or machine, you make it move or function, especially by turning a handle.
The chauffeur got out to crank the motor.
VERB : V n