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Non American asking: What does crank mean here?
by ta70 6y ago
Non American asking: What does crank mean here?
- detaro 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_%28person%29
- Gibbon1 6y ago"a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false."
- twic 6y agoYou've had some good answers, but i will add that the internet led to a Cambrian explosion of cranks, because now anyone can put up a webpage. There is a catalogue, although i don't think it's maintained any more: http://www.crank.net/contents.html http://www.crank.net/contents.html