Crank

Template:Wiktionary Crank may refer to:

Mechanisms

• Crank (mechanism), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it
• Crankset, the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the rider's legs into rotational motion
• Crankshaft, the part of a piston engine which translates reciprocating linear piston motion into rotation
• Crank machine, a machine used to deliver hard labour in early Victorian prisons in the United Kingdom

Places

• Crank, Merseyside, a village near Rainford, England
  • Crank Halt railway station in the village of Crank
• Cranks, Kentucky, United States

Popular culture

• Crank (film), a 2006 film starring Jason Statham
  • Crank: High Voltage, the 2009 sequel
• Crank (Hoodoo Gurus album), 1994
• Crank (novel), a 2004 book written by Ellen Hopkins
• "Crank" (Catherine Wheel song), 1993
• "Crank" (Playboi Carti song), 2025
• "Crank", a song by Fischer-Z from Going Deaf for a Living, 1980
• "Crank", a song by TV Rock from Sunshine City, 2006
• Crank (The Almighty album), the fourth studio album released by Scottish heavy metal band The Almighty
• Crank! A Record Company, a record label that released albums by indie bands Mineral, The Gloria Record, and Bright Eyes
• Cranks, creatures in The Maze Runner series by James Dashner

Slang

• Crank (person), a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.
• Prank call or crank call, a false telephone call
• Crank, slang term for powdered substituted amphetamines, especially methamphetamine

Other uses

• Cranks (restaurant), a chain of English wholefood vegetarian restaurants
• Crank (surname), a surname, notable people with the surname see there
• Crank conjecture, a term coined by Freeman Dyson to explain congruence patterns in integer partitions
• Crank of a partition, of a partition of an integer is a certain integer associated with the partition

See also

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• Cranky (disambiguation)
• Krank (disambiguation)