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cranking off

cranking off is the present participle and gerund of crank off.

Meaning of crank off

Verb

crank off (third-person singular simple present cranks off, present participle cranking off, simple past and past participle cranked off)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To shoot a gun (usually multiple times).

Questions about cranking off

What is cranking off the present participle and gerund of?
Cranking off is the present participle and gerund of crank off.

Words near cranking off in the dictionary

  1. crankily
  2. crankiness
  3. crankinesses
  4. cranking
  5. cranking it
  6. cranking off
  7. cranking one out
  8. cranking one's hog
  9. cranking out
  10. cranking the handle
  11. cranking the hog

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cranking off (page history and authors); crank off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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