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  • 21Crank 2 — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Crank 2: High Voltage Originaltitel: Crank: High Voltage Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 2009 Länge: 96 Minuten Originalsprache: Englisch …

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  • 22Crank — Soulja Boy Tell Em Soulja Boy …

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  • 23crank up — verb 1. start by cranking crank up the engine • Syn: ↑crank • Hypernyms: ↑start, ↑start up • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …

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  • 24crank — I. /kræŋk / (say krangk) noun 1. Machinery a device for communicating motion, or for changing rotary motion into reciprocating motion, or vice versa, consisting in its simplest form of an arm projecting from, or secured at right angles at the end …

  • 25crank — I. noun Etymology: Middle English cranke, from Old English cranc (as in crancstæf, a weaving instrument); probably akin to Middle High German krank weak, sick more at cringe Date: 13th century 1. a bent part of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at …

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  • 26crank — I [[t]kræŋk[/t]] n. 1) mac any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft 2) inf Informal. an ill tempered person 3) an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause …

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  • 27crank — crank1 [kræŋk] n [: Old English; Origin: cranc] 1.) a handle on a piece of equipment, that you can turn in order to move something 2.) informal someone who has unusual ideas and behaves strangely ▪ Zoff was originally dismissed as a crank, but… …

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  • 28crank — [[t]kræ̱ŋk[/t]] cranks, cranking, cranked 1) N COUNT (disapproval) If you call someone a crank, you think their ideas or behaviour are strange. [INFORMAL] The Prime Minister called Councillor Marshall a crank ... He looked like a crank. Syn:… …

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  • 29crank — 1 noun (C) 1 informal someone who has unusual ideas and behaves strangely: I was treated like a troublemaker and a crank. | crank caller/letters: We get quite a few crank phone calls. 2 AmE informal someone who easily gets angry or annoyed with… …

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  • 30crank — I UK [kræŋk] / US noun [countable] Word forms crank : singular crank plural cranks 1) a) British informal someone with ideas or behaviour that you think are very strange Protesters were dismissed as cranks. b) [only before noun] used about… …

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