crank out

1. 1.

   produce in a routine or monotonous manner

   “We have to crank out publications in order to receive funding”

   Synonymsgrind out

   Broaderproduce

Questions about crank out

What does crank out mean?

crank out means "produce in a routine or monotonous manner".

What is another word for crank out?

Close synonyms include grind out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crank out a common word?

crank out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.