Usually means: Increase intensity or level quickly.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word crank up:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. crank up: Collins English Dictionary
  2. crank up: Vocabulary.com
  3. crank up: Wiktionary
  4. crank-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. crank-up, crank up: Dictionary.com
  6. crank up: Rhymezone
  7. crank up: FreeDictionary.org
  8. crank up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. crank up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. crank up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crank up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crank up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crank up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. crank up: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crank_uping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (crank up)

verb:  To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking.
verb:  (idiomatic, reflexive) To muster up the mental energy to do something.
verb:  (idiomatic, slang) To prepare (something).
verb:  (idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
verb:  To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To inject heroin.

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