crank in

1. Factor in, integrate, as in We'll have to crank in both state and federal taxes when we make our plans. [Slang; 1960s]

Example Sentences

Considering how ambivalently Young has pursued traditional rock stardom over the intervening decades, you could look at his Love Earth tour — which the 79-year-old wrapped with Monday’s two-hour show after three months on the road — as the work of a crank in his dotage giving in to popular demand and doing the hits everybody wants to hear.

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The old crank in me wished that I laughed harder than I did.

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With an Amish hand-crank ice cream maker, Redd literally handcrafts every batch of his three current pints — one batch makes about 12 pints and takes 20 minutes to hand crank in between huffing and puffing, making for a serious arm workout.

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There’s a mode that tasks you with mashing the A button as many times as possible in 10 seconds and a safecracking mini-game where you rotate the crank in search of three numbers.

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We will also check in on this week’s star Old Crank in Congress.

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