crank up
verb- To start something mechanical, an act that often used to involve cranking. · Let's crank up the old motorcycle and take it for a spin.
- To muster up the mental energy to do something.
- To prepare (something).
- To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something. · He cranked up the volume to 11.
- To describe in praiseworthy terms; to promote.
- To inject heroin.
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