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Idioms and Phrases
Produce, especially mechanically or rapidly, as in I don't know how he can crank out a novel a year . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
An uncomfortable urinary infection is going to feel way worse than those few minutes you spent trying to crank out your work.
Apple has even created authoring tools to help textbook publishers crank out more books for the iPad.
He hastened to take the crank out of her plump little hands.
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