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Definition: Crank Call |
Crank CallNoun1. A hostile telephone call (from a crank). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm in the middle of a crank call here. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crank call | 147 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-k-l-l-n-r" | |
-3 letters: calcar, callan, carack, carnal. | |
-4 letters: alack, calla, canal, clack, clank, craal, crack, crank, kraal. | |
-5 letters: alan, alar, anal, arak, caca, calk, call, cark, carl, carn, clan, kana, karn, knar, lack, lank, lark, narc, nark, rack, rank. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 72 61 6E 6B 43 61 6C 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01110010 01100001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C r a n k   C a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0072 0061 006E 006B 0043 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3784678077237677878 |
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