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▸ adjective:  (dialectal) Hard, difficult.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Strange, weird, odd.
▸ adjective:  (dialectal) Bent, twisted, crooked, distorted; out of repair.
▸ adjective:  Sick; unwell.
▸ adjective:  (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
▸ adjective:  Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
▸ adjective:  (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
▸ noun:  (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
▸ noun:  (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
▸ noun:  A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
▸ noun:  A fit of temper or passion.
▸ noun:  (informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
▸ noun:  (archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
▸ noun:  (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
▸ noun:  (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
▸ noun:  (slang) The penis.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To turn a crank.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A small village in Rainford parish, St Helens borough, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5099).
▸ noun:  Clipping of crankshaft. [A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.]

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