"crank call" meaning in All languages combined

See crank call on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: crank calls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} crank call (plural crank calls)
  1. A prank call. Categories (topical): Telephony Derived forms: crank caller Related terms: nuisance call
    Sense id: en-crank_call-en-noun-bzZJSITJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
          "text": "Bart is predictably devastated, but the plot thread wraps itself up all too neatly when Bart gets Laura to see through Jimbo’s bad-boy façade by framing Jimbo for one of his own habitual crank calls to Moe.",
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