crank (n.)
- aficionado
- alien
- angle
- apex
- bar
- beam
- bear
- bee
- bellyacher
- bend
- bifurcation
- bight
- boom
- brainstorm
- branch
- buff
- bug
- cant
- capriccio
- caprice
- case
- character
- chevron
- circle
- coin
- complainant
- complainer
- conceit
- corner
- crab
- crackpot
- craze
- croaker
- crook
- crosspatch
- crotchet
- crow
- crowbar
- cuckoo
- deflection
- deviant
- devotee
- dogleg
- dragon
- eccentric
- elbow
- ell
- enthusiast
- fad
- fan
- fanatic
- fancy
- fantasy
- faultfinder
- feist
- fey
- fire-eater
- flake
- flimflam
- fork
- freak
- funny
- furcation
- fury
- grouch
- growler
- grumbler
- gyre
- handspike
- hermit
- hobo
- hook
- hothead
- hotspur
- humor
- inflection
- irregular
- jimmy
- kicker
- kink
- knee
- kook
- kvetch
- lever
- limb
- loner
- lunatic
- maggot
- malcontent
- marlinespike
- maverick
- megrim
- monomaniac
- murmurer
- mutterer
- natural
- nonconformist
- nook
- notion
- nut
- odd
- oddball
- oddity
- original
- outrigger
- outsider
- pariah
- peavey
- pedal
- pillory
- pirouette
- pivot
- point
- prize
- pry
- queer
- quirk
- quoin
- reactionary
- rebel
- recluse
- reel
- round
- screw
- screwball
- singular
- solitary
- sorehead
- sourpuss
- spar
- spin
- stocks
- swerve
- swing
- swivel
- tackle
- toy
- tramp
- treadle
- treadmill
- trebuchet
- triangle
- trim
- turn
- twist
- type
- vagary
- vertex
- weirdo
- wheel
- whim
- whimsy
- whiner
- winch
- wind
- windlass
- zag
- zealot
- zig
- zigzag
crank (v.)
- alien
- angle
- bar
- beam
- bear
- bend
- bifurcate
- bight
- boom
- brainstorm
- branch
- buff
- bug
- cant
- case
- character
- circle
- circulate
- circumvolute
- coin
- corner
- crab
- craze
- crook
- crow
- cuckoo
- elbow
- ell
- fan
- fancy
- fantasy
- flake
- fork
- freak
- furcate
- grouch
- gyrate
- hook
- humor
- infatuate
- jimmy
- kink
- kvetch
- lever
- limb
- nut
- pedal
- pillory
- pirouette
- pivot
- point
- prize
- pry
- queer
- quirk
- rebel
- reel
- revolve
- rotate
- round
- screw
- spar
- spin
- strange
- swerve
- swing
- swivel
- tackle
- tauten
- tighten
- toy
- tramp
- treadle
- trim
- turn
- twist
- type
- veer
- wamble
- wheel
- winch
- wind
- zag
- zigzag
crank (adj.)
- abnormal
- alien
- angle
- anomalous
- bar
- beam
- bend
- bifurcate
- branch
- buff
- cant
- case
- corner
- cranky
- crotchety
- deviant
- different
- divergent
- dotty
- eccentric
- ell
- erratic
- exceptional
- fanatic
- fancy
- fey
- flaky
- freakish
- funny
- furcate
- hook
- idiosyncratic
- irregular
- kinky
- kooky
- lever
- lunatic
- maggoty
- malcontent
- maverick
- natural
- nonconformist
- nut
- nutty
- odd
- original
- peculiar
- pedal
- point
- prize
- pry
- queer
- quirky
- reactionary
- reactionist
- recluse
- round
- screwball
- screwy
- singular
- solitary
- strange
- trim
- turn
- twisted
- unconventional
- unnatural
- wacky
- wheel
- whimsical
- wind
- zag
- zigzag
