Cranks

What do we mean by cranks?

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.

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

An ill-tempered or nasty person.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

A fit of temper or passion.

(dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.

(1800s) A baseball fan.

An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.

A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

A sick person; an invalid.

A penis.

Words that are spelled similarly to cranks:
cranks, crank, cranky, ranks, cracks, pranks, franks, cranes, branks, crants, clanks, cranko, crans, tranks.

Words that rhyme with cranks:
thanks, banks, manx, ranks, tanks, blanks, planks, hanks, pranks, spanks, francs, franks, flanks, shanks, yanks, branks, danks, lancs, swanks, crookshanks, clanks, give thanks, sanks, outflanks, bankes, marchbanks, baybanks, hankes, willbanks.

Adjectives that are often used to describe cranks:
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Words that sound like cranks:
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