crank call

1. 1.

   a hostile telephone call (from a crank)

   Broadercall

Questions about crank call

What does crank call mean?

crank call means "a hostile telephone call (from a crank)".

Is crank call a common word?

crank call is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.