to crank out
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4.0
- phrasal verb
- /kræŋk aʊt/
- Informal
:
producir en serie
- She managed to crank out several reports in just a few hours to meet the tight deadline.
- keep cranking out
- cranking out hits
- crank out new
And if you support us, we will still keep cranking out content.
- And if you support us, we will still keep cranking out content.
- There was a elevator repairman and he had his boom box cranking out Hard Rock.
- Here's the candle, I have the face mask, and let us crank out this PowerPoint.
- Who else in America was really cranking stuff out?
- But what I could do is make myself inevitable by continuing to crank out original material.
- So we're talking about billions of dollars here of what they can crank out.
- Well, couple things we got to crank out first.
- So we're just we're trying to crank them out faster so that we can we can just keep up with with the demand.
Examples
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How can you still be cranking out paintings?
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Book after book, you just crank 'em out, man.
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And if you support us, we will still keep cranking out content.
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So we're just we're trying to crank them out faster so that we can we can just keep up with with the demand.
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And they were cranked out at an incredible rate.
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"It's easy to crank out a good piece of software in a hurry.
Fiction book (2002) -
Now you need to find the time to crank out those words.
Blog text (7) -
Indeed, the most reliable health advice that doctors crank out is watch what you eat, exercise, sleep well.
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I was having writer's block the first day, but here lately I'm just cranking out the pages.
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Job security and peer respect hinge on how many papers one can crank out.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
162
3.3
To make many things using machines
23
3.2
To remove liquid with a pump or make many things quickly
21
4.0
To make large amounts quickly with little care
17
3.5
To produce many things quickly, often using machines
2
6.0
Make many things like reports or products in a dull routine way
1
6.6
Make or finish something quickly with little effort
To make writing or music quickly without much care
Antonyms
How Fast
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3.5
- Informal
16
4.0
- Informal
21
4.0
∞
2.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The image of turning a crank to make things come out links the constituents to a production sense: a learner who knows 'crank' (turn a handle) and 'out' (outward/resulting) can plausibly infer that something is being produced. However, the added nuances of rapid, routine mass-production and the often low-quality implication are metaphorical and not fully predictable from the parts, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Crank out comes from old machines with a hand crank; turning the handle forced work or goods out of the machine. That's why crank out now means 'to produce something quickly and in large numbers', often with little care for quality.