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"A baseball fan."
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"(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan."
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"ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:",
"text": "Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.",
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}
],
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"A sick person; an invalid."
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"(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid."
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"obsolete"
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"ref": "1964 November, E. N. Bellass, “Some questions for Mr. Mugliston”, in Modern Railways, page 330:",
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"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
"word": "rotire"
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"_dis1": "10 30 45 7 2 6 0",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
"word": "învârtire"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "girar"
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"_dis1": "10 30 45 7 2 6 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
"word": "dar vuelta a"
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"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
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"word": "vevning"
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"_dis1": "10 30 45 7 2 6 0",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
"word": "kolu çevirme"
}
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"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Cantos of Mutabilitie Canto 7",
"text": "So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks."
}
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"Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage."
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"text": "Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.",
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"(US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine."
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"ref": "a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 31:",
"text": "Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,",
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}
],
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"(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word."
],
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"_dis1": "15 19 14 15 14 24 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pseudoscience advocate",
"word": "aluhoedje"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 19 14 15 14 24 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pseudoscience advocate",
"word": "complotdenker"
},
{
"_dis1": "15 19 14 15 14 24 0",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "frik",
"sense": "pseudoscience advocate",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фрик"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 1 4 0 87 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "twist or turn in speech",
"word": "käänne"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 4 1 4 0 87 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "twist or turn in speech",
"word": "veivaus"
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"_dis1": "4 4 1 4 0 87 0",
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "twist or turn in speech",
"word": "kelime oyunu"
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]
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"ref": "2013, Reggie Chesterfield, Scoundrel, page 57:",
"text": "It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank.",
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"The penis."
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"(slang) The penis."
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"word": "cock"
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{
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{
"word": "penis"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "mirfaq",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"roman": "manivela",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
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],
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "曲柄"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "klika"
},
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwengel"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
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],
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{
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"word": "kranko"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "kampi"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "veivi"
},
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manivelle"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kurbel"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "strófalos",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "στρόφαλος"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "kurbli"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "crangaid"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manovella"
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{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
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"feminine"
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Krenkj"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "manivela"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "manivelă coarbă"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
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"roman": "krivošíp",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "кривоши́п"
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kľuka"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "manivela"
},
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cigüeñuela"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rabil"
},
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"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "biela"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vev"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "kol"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "manivela"
},
{
"_dis1": "44 44 2 2 1 5 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "giò đĩa"
},
{
"_dis1": "22 22 11 11 10 24 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "temerut",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "темерут"
},
{
"_dis1": "22 22 11 11 10 24 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"word": "kränkkä"
},
{
"_dis1": "22 22 11 11 10 24 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"word": "känkkäränkkä"
},
{
"_dis1": "22 22 11 11 10 24 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"word": "kääkkä"
},
{
"_dis1": "22 22 11 11 10 24 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"tags": [
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Miesepeter"
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "manivelă coarbă"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "кривоши́п"
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "es",
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"word": "manivela"
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"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "sv",
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"common-gender"
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "a bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an arm attached to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation",
"word": "giò đĩa"
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act of turning a crankshaft",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "ro",
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{
"code": "ro",
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{
"code": "es",
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{
"code": "es",
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"word": "känkkäränkkä"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
"word": "kääkkä"
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"code": "de",
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"colloquial",
"masculine"
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"code": "el",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
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"masculine"
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"code": "mk",
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"masculine"
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "sh",
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"feminine"
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "cascarrabias"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "ill-tempered or nasty person",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"code": "mk",
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"masculine"
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"code": "ru",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "sv",
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "slang: strange person",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "slang: strange person",
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"word": "aluhoedje"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "complotdenker"
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"masculine"
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "twist or turn in speech",
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{
"code": "tr",
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"word": "bellcrank"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
"word": "crank off"
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{
"word": "crank one out"
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{
"word": "crank one's hog"
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{
"word": "crank out"
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{
"word": "crank pin"
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "crank shaft"
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"word": "crank start"
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{
"word": "crank the handle"
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{
"word": "crank up"
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{
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{
"word": "crank wheel"
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{
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{
"word": "flycrank"
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{
"word": "hand crank"
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{
"word": "noncranking"
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{
"word": "overcrank"
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{
"word": "turn someone's crank"
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"word": "undercrank"
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"text": "Crank it up!",
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"text": "By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.",
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"ref": "2009, Carol Baroudi, Jeffrey Hill, Arnold Reinhold, Green IT For Dummies:",
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{
"ref": "2009, Mike Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, ...:",
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{
"ref": "2011, P. L. Nelson, The Incessant Voice of War: The Black Rose Conspiracies, page 64:",
"text": "expected that the NVA and VC were in a position to dish out what they're dishing out, and the rumor mill is really cranking overtime.",
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"ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to turn by means of a crank",
"word": "aanzwengelen"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to turn by means of a crank",
"word": "ankurbeln"
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"word": "kammeta"
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"word": "veivata"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "kurbeln"
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"sense": "to turn a crank",
"word": "sveive"
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"code": "sk",
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"word": "roztociť"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to turn a crank",
"word": "vypeckovať"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to turn a crank",
"word": "veva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank",
"word": "pyörittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a cranky manner",
"word": "marmattaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to act in a cranky manner",
"word": "valittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce or present a desired object",
"word": "pyöräyttää"
}
],
"word": "crank"
}
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s",
"path": [
"crank"
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"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "crank",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s",
"path": [
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