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vb. (en-third-person singular of: crank up)
Usage examples of "cranks up".
He cranks up the orange warning lights to maximum brilliance, puts his headlights on autoflash.
A madness that his ghost manifests in spades, ranting as he cranks up the soul-stretching machinery, preparing me/us for my/our assigned role as a carrier wave -- a finely tuned vehicle for transporting the Yosil-soul to Olympian grandeur .
He stops, and, thinking she's got a hot one, she cranks up the voltage in her smile.
In the Platonic dialogues and The Republic, every time Socrates cranks up a myth-the parable of the cave, to take the most celebrated example-we know that we have arrived at something central.
So she goes in, she told me, and this turkey gets it on after a lot of bullshit about the infidels he scored, meaning you and me, and he cranks up on paradise.
You may have better luck when Ruby Bee's cranks up for happy hour later this afternoon.
There is something raw and primal working inside her as she cranks up her speed a notch at a time.
It pops out of hyperspace, cranks up gravity well generators-that's what those blisters around the center are-and all traffic in or out stops cold.
I just think that if we had more sea room, we would have a little more reaction time if and when Ahmad the Awful cranks up his Cessna or speedboat and comes roaring out to sink us.