crank caller

[krangk kawl-er]

noun

plural

crank callers 

1. a person who makes a crank call.

Example Sentences

Cohen told the crank caller that he planned to report the harassment to the Secret Service.

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Long Beach City College leader Mike Muñoz frantically Googled anything he could to see if the person on the phone offering a big donation was a crank caller.

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Scotland Yard suspects a woman’s problem is not a crank caller but rather a busy husband.

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“Oh no. It is just that I have a regular crank caller and almost every day he telephones about this time. If I don’t pick up he rings and rings.”

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I said, but instead of the introduction I was ready to make, there followed instead a leisurely and highly surreal exchange that I am at a loss to replicate — something to do with backfiring cars? and knocks on the door? — which continued at cross-purposes for some moments until, without missing a beat, he said pleasantly: “Oh I beg your pardon. I thought you were my crank caller.”

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