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We found 49 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word crank:
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General dictionaries General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. crank: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. crank, crank, crank: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. crank, crank: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. crank: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. crank: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. crank, crank: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Crank, crank: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. crank: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Crank, Crank: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Crank, crank: Wiktionary [home, info]
  11. crank: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  12. crank: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  13. crank: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  14. crank: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  15. crank: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  16. crank: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. crank: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  18. Crank (Hoodoo Gurus album), Crank (The Almighty album), Crank (film), Crank (mechanism), Crank (novel), Crank (person), Crank (song), Crank, Crank: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. crank: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  20. Crank: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  21. crank: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  22. crank: Rhymezone [home, info]
  23. Crank: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  24. crank: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  25. Crank: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  26. Crank: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  27. crank: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  28. crank: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  29. crank: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  30. Crank, crank: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  31. crank: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  32. crank: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CRANK: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crank: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crank: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. crank: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crank: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crank: Idioms [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crank: Totally Unofficial Rap [home, info]
  2. crank: American-Australian Slang Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Crank: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crank: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  2. Crank: Bicycle Glossary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crank: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. crank: Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool [home, info]
  3. crank: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  4. Crank: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (crank)

noun:  a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
noun:  a whimsically eccentric person
noun:  a bad-tempered person
noun:  amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
verb:  bend into the shape of a crank
verb:  fasten with a crank
verb:  rotate with a crank
verb:  start by cranking ("Crank up the engine")
verb:  travel along a zigzag path
adjective:  (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8583)

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Phrases that include crank:   crank up, bell crank, crank handle, crank axle, bell crank lever, more...

Words similar to crank:   churl, crackpot, cranked, cranking, crankish, cranky, crosspatch, fruitcake, grouch, grump, nut, nutcase, screwball, starter, tender, tippy, zigzag, crank up, turn, more...


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