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单词 crank call
释义

crank call

noun
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...
  • I hadn't said anything to my wife about the latest crank call.
  • This is great news to a kid who regularly used up all the credit on his phone making crank calls with his school friends.
  • Now I know who made that crank call in the middle of the night.

Derivatives

crank caller

noun ...
  • An officer nearby said the whole thing was a hoax, a crank caller pranking 911.
  • In the past few weeks I've been plagued by a crank caller.
  • At this point, I'm trying to decide if this is a crank caller or if he's for real.
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