crank

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Hard; difficult.
2. (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
3. Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
4. Sick; unwell.
5. Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
6. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

Noun

1. An ailment, ache.
2. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
3. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
4. A fit of temper or passion.
5. (informal) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
6. (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
7. (slang) A baseball fan.
8. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.

Noun

1. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
2. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
3. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
4. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
5. (slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
6. A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
7. (slang) The penis.

Verb

1. To turn by means of a crank.
2. To turn a crank.
3. To turn.
4. To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
5. To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
6. To be running at a high level of output or effort.
7. To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Conceptos

manivela

manubrio

metanfetamina

cigüeña

girar

hacer dar vueltas

hacer girar

loco

maniático

volver

chifladura

dar vueltas a

estrafalario

cascarrabias

encender con manivela

chalado

chiflado

excéntrico

Sinónimos

eccentric

crank up

lever

nut

zigzag

meth

turn

oddball

methamphetamine

crackpot

twist

craze

winch

wind

oddity

chalk

crosspatch

psychopath

freak

fruitcake

revolve

Methedrine

chicken feed

deoxyephedrine

methamphetamine hydrochloride

nut case

shabu

starting handle

glass

churl

screwball

grump

grouch

bend

ice

🧊

madcap

starter

tender

tippy

fad

trash

cranky

twirl

weirdo

whim

wile

winding

change direction

bellcrank

methedrine

mutograph

iron bar

metamfetamine

methylamphetamine

verbal trick

side leg

desoxyephedrine

arm

methamphetamines

axe

🪓

branch

buy

🛍️

caprice

coil

crook

crotchet

cure

curve

deceit

erratic

faddist

fanatic

fashion

fire

🔥

gink

go around

handle

madman

maniac

maniacal

meandering

monomaniac

move

pluck

psycho

pull

queer fish

rev up

rotate

scatterbrain

shoot

shot

sleight

sociopath

speed

spin

starter handle

sucker

throws

tractor

🚜

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɹæŋk/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).