crank in

Idioms  

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

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Example Sentences

Restorers also discovered a sophisticated set of gears on the crank in the tube that enabled the crew rotating the crank to propel the sub faster by moving water rapidly through the tube.

From Literature

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From The Verge