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crank
verb- to use amphetamines or methamphetamine, central nervous system stimulants US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 7, December 1970
- to inject a drug UK
Also known as “crank up.” - — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
- to turn up the volume of music very loud US
- Hey! Turn your radios up! Crank it up so’s we can hear it! — Airheads, 1994
- I had the tunes cranked, I had nine grand sitting in front of me. — Empire Records, 1995
- I’ve got it modified with the TK 421, which is a bass unit that basically kicks in another two, maybe three quads when you really crank. — Boogie Nights, 1997
- to excel US
- UNREAL, it’s cranking out there. — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 5, 1988
- in computing, to perform well US
- This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 5 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations. — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 110, 1991
- in a card game, to deal the cards US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 25, 1988
▶ crank tail
to physically assault someone TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1971- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ crank your yanker
(of a male) to masturbate US- If you are a slave to the boob tube, you’ve probably cranked your yanker to thoughts of Kristin Bauer. — Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia, p. 48, 2005
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