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PROFANITY:

Crank Turning In Fact Engrosses One

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noun

• a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

adjective satellite

• marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

37%9 Italian port engrosses trendy director
noun

• United States filmmaker (born in 1963)

35%5 To operate or produce by turning a crank
noun

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

verb

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• work hard

• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• created by grinding

• shape or form by grinding

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