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(dialectal) {{cap|hard}}; difficult.

(informal) {{cap|strange}}; weird; odd.

(dialectal) {{cap|bent}}; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.

Sick; unwell. +

(of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

(dialectal) An ailment, ache.

(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

A fit of temper or passion.

(US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways. +

(informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.

(1800s) A baseball fan.

(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

(crankshaft)

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

(slang) (methamphetamine).

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

(slang) The penis. +

To turn by means of a crank.

To turn a crank.

(of a crank or similar) To turn.

To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.

To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.

(running_at_a_high_level) To be running at a high level of output or effort.

(dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.