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Crank vs. Crunk — What's the Difference?

Crank vs. Crunk — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Crank and Crunk

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Crank

Turn the crankshaft of (an internal combustion engine) in order to start the engine
The starter motor struggled to crank the engine
Move the pitch lever into the normal range and crank up the engine

Crunk

Crunk is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success during the mid 2000s. Crunk is often up-tempo and one of Southern hip hop's more dance and club oriented subgenres.

Crank

Give a bend to (a shaft, bar, etc.)
Paddle styles also vary—long, short, cranked, etc.

Crunk

A type of hip-hop music characterized by repeatedly shouted catchphrases and elements typical of electronic dance music, such as prominent bass
At the heart of this conviction is a total lack of pretence combined with a genuine passion for music in all its many varieties, from rave to rock and punk to crunk

Crank

Inject a narcotic drug
He's been cranking up on smack
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Crunk

Very excited or full of energy
Get crunk with some raw hip-hop

Crank

A part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles, for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa
A long con rod which acts as a longer lever on the crank

Crunk

Wildly excited or intoxicated.

Crank

The drug methamphetamine.

Crunk

A style of hip-hop music originating in the southern United States, characterized by electronic sounds, simple refrains, and a high-energy, heavily rhythmic beat.

Crank

An eccentric person, especially one who is obsessed by a particular subject
I am used to getting crank calls from conspiracy theorists
When he first started to air his views, they labelled him a crank

Crunk

Crazy and intoxicated.

Crank

A fanciful turn of speech.

Crunk

A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

Crank

(of a sailing ship) liable to heel over.

Crunk

To cry like a crane.

Crank

A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.

Crunk

To cry like a crane.

Crank

A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit
Quips and cranks.

Crank

A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.

Crank

A grouchy person.

Crank

An eccentric person, especially one who is unduly zealous.

Crank

(Slang) Methamphetamine.

Crank

To start or operate (an engine, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

Crank

To move or operate (a window, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

Crank

To make into the shape of a crank; bend.

Crank

To provide with a handle that is used in turning.

Crank

To turn a handle.

Crank

To wind in a zigzagging course.

Crank

Of, being, or produced by an eccentric person
A crank letter.
A crank phone call.

Crank

Liable to capsize; unstable.

Crank

(slang) Strange, weird, odd.

Crank

Sick; unwell.

Crank

Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

Crank

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

Crank

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.

Crank

Clipping of crankshaft

Crank

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
Give it a forceful crank.

Crank

(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

Crank

(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.

Crank

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

Crank

A fit of temper or passion.

Crank

A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
John is a crank because he talks to himself.

Crank

A baseball fan.

Crank

(informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.

Crank

Synonym of methamphetamine.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.

Crank

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

Crank

(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.

Crank

(slang) The penis.

Crank

(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.

Crank

(intransitive) To turn a crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

Crank

To turn.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

Crank

(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
Crank it up!

Crank

(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!

Crank

(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.

Crank

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Crank

A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

Crank

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.

Crank

A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.

Crank

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.

Crank

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

Crank

A sick person; an invalid.
Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.

Crank

Sick; infirm.

Crank

Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

Crank

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.

Crank

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
See how this river comes me cranking in.

Crank

A bad-tempered person

Crank

A whimsically eccentric person

Crank

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

Crank

A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

Crank

Travel along a zigzag path;
The river zigzags through the countryside

Crank

Start by cranking;
Crank up the engine

Crank

Rotate with a crank

Crank

Fasten with a crank

Crank

Bend into the shape of a crank

Crank

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

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