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Definition of crank call in English: crank callnoun A telephone call made to disturb, annoy, or trick someone, often anonymously. she had been getting a lot of crank calls and so she wasn't answering her phone an anonymous telephone warning was discounted as a crank call by Special Branch Example sentencesExamples - Some have been crank calls but I have been humbled by the support I have received from so many people.
- I hadn't said anything to my wife about the latest crank call.
- "There are very few calls that could be categorised as crank calls and nutters," Dorothy said, adding the majority of people truly believe they have seen a Tasmanian Tiger.
- With midnight fast approaching, he delivered a pizza to an abandoned cryogenics lab, only to discover that it was a crank call.
- While there were a few crank calls, the majority showed definite interest.
- How are they going to weed out the crank calls from the real ones?
- The law officers, I convinced myself, could intercept crank calls at will and positively identify suspects through sophisticated electronic surveillance, yanking the guilty off to jail.
- Out of nowhere I was getting daily crank calls, I was beat up at recess, I was picked on and name-called daily, and I didn't have a friend to talk to.
- Over 15 months she flooded the city's 911 emergency line with more than 10,000 crank calls in a dialing marathon that sometimes blocked legitimate callers.
- A 911 operator scolded him for calling, apparently thinking he was making a crank call.
- And, at times when crank calls keep pouring in beyond endurance, the staff simply pick up the phone and bang it down without answering.
- When your dad's a minister, and advertised in the phone book as a minister, you're likely to get at least some crank calls.
- Someone was making crank calls, or so I thought.
- And the nasty people who make crank calls are thereby doing criminal acts and should be fully prosecuted.
- Routine police operations had ground to a standstill since the beginning of this baseless panic as there were hundreds of crank calls, false alarms, and incidents of simple mischief.
- Two of the eight saboteurs turned themselves in to the authorities after they arrived in the US, but the FBI initially refused to believe their account, terming their first telephone contact a "crank call."
- Now I know who made that crank call in the middle of the night.
- Crank calls were popular decades ago because there was no such thing as caller ID or *69 where someone could immediately call you back.
- This is great news to a kid who regularly used up all the credit on his phone making crank calls with his school friends.
- So to avoid unwanted visitors, I use my mobile all the time, and if I get too many crank calls, I just change the number.
Derivativesnoun It doesn't happen often enough that I'd suspect some crank callers, but it irritates me to death because once I've gotten up I have difficulty getting back to sleep again. Example sentencesExamples - At this point, I'm trying to decide if this is a crank caller or if he's for real.
- In the past few weeks I've been plagued by a crank caller.
- Earlier this year Hampshire Ambulance Service launched its own crackdown on crank callers after revealing they spent £3.7m answering unnecessary call-outs, including some from people who just wanted a lift home.
- An officer nearby said the whole thing was a hoax, a crank caller pranking 911.
Definition of crank call in US English: crank callnoun A telephone call made to disturb, annoy, or trick someone, often anonymously. she had been getting a lot of crank calls and so she wasn't answering her phone I don't know if it was a crank call or a real threat Example sentencesExamples - So to avoid unwanted visitors, I use my mobile all the time, and if I get too many crank calls, I just change the number.
- Over 15 months she flooded the city's 911 emergency line with more than 10,000 crank calls in a dialing marathon that sometimes blocked legitimate callers.
- Routine police operations had ground to a standstill since the beginning of this baseless panic as there were hundreds of crank calls, false alarms, and incidents of simple mischief.
- Someone was making crank calls, or so I thought.
- "There are very few calls that could be categorised as crank calls and nutters," Dorothy said, adding the majority of people truly believe they have seen a Tasmanian Tiger.
- When your dad's a minister, and advertised in the phone book as a minister, you're likely to get at least some crank calls.
- Some have been crank calls but I have been humbled by the support I have received from so many people.
- Now I know who made that crank call in the middle of the night.
- Out of nowhere I was getting daily crank calls, I was beat up at recess, I was picked on and name-called daily, and I didn't have a friend to talk to.
- With midnight fast approaching, he delivered a pizza to an abandoned cryogenics lab, only to discover that it was a crank call.
- How are they going to weed out the crank calls from the real ones?
- This is great news to a kid who regularly used up all the credit on his phone making crank calls with his school friends.
- While there were a few crank calls, the majority showed definite interest.
- And, at times when crank calls keep pouring in beyond endurance, the staff simply pick up the phone and bang it down without answering.
- A 911 operator scolded him for calling, apparently thinking he was making a crank call.
- Two of the eight saboteurs turned themselves in to the authorities after they arrived in the US, but the FBI initially refused to believe their account, terming their first telephone contact a "crank call."
- I hadn't said anything to my wife about the latest crank call.
- Crank calls were popular decades ago because there was no such thing as caller ID or *69 where someone could immediately call you back.
- The law officers, I convinced myself, could intercept crank calls at will and positively identify suspects through sophisticated electronic surveillance, yanking the guilty off to jail.
- And the nasty people who make crank calls are thereby doing criminal acts and should be fully prosecuted.
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