Words similar to crank

Example sentences for: crank

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It is Sir John Marks Templeton, religious philanthropist, investment wizard, amateur philosopher, and full-bore crank.
The number of people who work to put on one of these spectacles--building the set, brushing down the wigs, turning the crank that lowers Don Giovanni down into hell--is incredible.
Time is the latest magazine to discover that "crank" (smokable methamphetamine) is sweeping the heartland.
Gotta get the crank out of the water supply down on West 43rd Street; what the hell is wrong with the headline writers?
Christopher isn't just a good explanation for why the mob's tanking, though with his crank and inability even to get his Godfather references straight, for chrissake, he's that too.