Crank Call (Noun)
Meaning
A hostile telephone call (from a crank).
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The police received a crank call threatening to blow up the city hall building.
- She got a crank call from an unknown number and the person on the other end was yelling obscenities.
- The radio station was flooded with crank calls after they announced the winner of the contest.
- The crank call to the emergency services wasted valuable time and resources.
- The teenager was arrested for making a crank call to the school, claiming there was a bomb on campus.