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cranked; cranked out; cranked up adjective- stimulated by methamphetamine or amphetamines US
- “There’s another worrier,” said my attorney. “He’s probably all cranked up on speed.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 14, 1971
- I was half-drunk, fully cranked, and pissed off at everything that moved. — Hunter S. Thompson, The Greek Shark Hunt, p. 663, 1979
- They’re all crazy cranked-out animals! — Joseph Wambaugh, The Secrets of Harry Bright, p. 243, 1985
- “Go on home, man,” the ox said to him. “Take my pickup. I gotta git cranked.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 202, 1992
- Akerlund rounds up a troupe of Hollywood B-listers–Mena Suvari, Brittany Murphy, Jason Schwartzman, and Patrick Fugit–for an hour and a half of cranked-out obnoxiousness. — Boston Globe, p. D8, 28 March 2003
- excited; intensified US, 1957
Mechanical imagery. - Only a fool would try to explain why four thousand Japanese ran at top speed past the U.S.S. Arizona, sunken memorial in the middle of Pearl Harbor, along with another four or five thousand certified American liberals cranked upon beer and spaghetti[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 189, 1980
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