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Meanings of crank up in English

Spanish
encender con manivela

Rotate with a crank.

encender con manivela
Usage of crank up in English
1
When the dope and alcohol crank up, I know enough to leave.
Black is the new white
2
Surely the pressure is about to crank up on them now, though.
Reuters
3
They asked everyone to open their windows and crank up the volume.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
4
Nick stood up and reached over to crank up the radio volume.
Eye of vengeance
5
Well, I'd better get out there and crank up the auxiliary generator.
Biggie and the devil diet
6
Folks crank up heaters or build fires that burn down the house.
206 Bones
7
C. Generate Momentum You can crank up momentum three different ways.
Rock and Ice Magazine
8
Now the phoney war is over and the campaign machinery can crank up.
The Guardian
9
No, he thought it was all right; he would crank up and see.
"Say Fellows—" / Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big I...
10
The treadmill will crank up again ahead of the Tokyo Games in 2020.
Reuters
11
You can always crank up the fun when you get home.
Wired
12
We'll have to see how quickly Commodore Wells can crank up the refit.
Genellan: planetfall
13
Irrigation is starting to crank up with top soil drying off.
Radio NZ
14
He'd dowsed himself in Obsession, forcing Dayle to crank up the vent fan.
The next to die
15
The next BOJ governor should face reality, and crank up the printing presses.
Reuters
16
The Taoiseach had said that Fine Gael and Labour should crank up their campaigns.
The Irish Times
This collocation consists of:
Translations for crank up
Crank up through the time
Crank up across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common