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crank call

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Noun1.crank callcrank call - a hostile telephone call (from a crank)
call, phone call, telephone call - a telephone connection; "she reported several anonymous calls"; "he placed a phone call to London"; "he heard the phone ringing but didn't want to take the call"


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Mimicking the want-ad convention of exaggerated abbreviation, he would promote his own work (ANTIQUE, DRAWING DESERT MIX UNDERGROUND STUDIO SESSION IN ORIG FRAME, IN PENCIL, $1200 OR MUSEUM TOUR 310-453-8311) or lampoon elders such as John Baldessari, even going so far as to supply real gallery phone numbers that he would crank call himself, just to make sure his name and business would tie up the lines of the art-world powerful.
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Simi Valley police dispatcher Lynn Freeman was about to hang up on what she thought was a crank call to the 911 emergency line when she heard the slightest of sounds.
DISPATCH OPERATORS HOLD LINE : CREW ANSWERS CALLS, COORDINATES RESCUES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
``As it turns out, it was a crank call, but that was in the back of our mind, that's what drove our search,'' said one high-ranking police official.
DYING BANK ROBBER'S LAST WORDS TO POLICE: : `SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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