crank out

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Verb

crank out (third-person singular simple present cranks out, present participle cranking out, simple past and past participle cranked out)

1. (idiomatic) To produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine.

   The teenager spent hours cranking out volumes of bad poetry.

See also

• crank one out
• turn out