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cranking out

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

Meaning of crank out

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine.
    • Near-synonym: churn out
    Synonyms:
    churn out

Questions about cranking out

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

Words near cranking out in the dictionary

  1. cranking
  2. cranking it
  3. cranking off
  4. cranking one out
  5. cranking one's hog
  6. cranking out
  7. cranking the handle
  8. cranking the hog
  9. cranking up
  10. crankings
  11. crankish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cranking out (page history and authors); crank out (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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