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crank call

crank call noun: a prank call.

Noun

crank call (plural crank calls)

  1. A prank call.
    • Bart is predictably devastated, but the plot thread wraps itself up all too neatly when Bart gets Laura to see through Jimbo’s bad-boy façade by framing Jimbo for one of his own habitual crank calls to Moe.2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club

Forms of crank call

pluralcrank calls

Words formed from crank call

Questions about crank call

What does crank call mean?
Crank call means a prank call.
What part of speech is crank call?
Crank call is a noun.
What is the plural of crank call?
The plural of crank call is crank calls.

Words near crank call in the dictionary

  1. crank arms
  2. crank axle
  3. crank axles
  4. crank bug
  5. crank bugs
  6. crank call
  7. crank caller
  8. crank callers
  9. crank calls
  10. crank it
  11. crank letter

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