A British band, often described as gothic rock or shoegazers. Formed in the mid 1980s in Portsmouth, England, they are best known for the soft, high-pitched vocals of lead singer Alison Shaw, memorably likened by the NME to "a beautiful siren being slowly strangled on a spiral staircase of hammer-horror guitars". Cranes saw an increase in popularity in 1992 when they toured with The Cure. Cranes took their name from the innumerable mechanical cranes around Portsmouth docks.
by thetruedarkness August 03, 2006
by jasshole1 August 24, 2011
(Noun) an alter ego that is responsible for all unusual activity or feelings that run through your body
by craney boy September 14, 2019
When a woman is giving you a hand job and she has a crane like looking hand in which she straightens all of her fingers downwards towards the head of the penis. Then strocks the head of the penis with the head bobbing up and downwards hitting the palm.
by Willy Diesel April 19, 2008
The act of somebody actively pretending to be minding their own business and diligently completing their own work, but in reality sticking their head out, like a crane, and copying their predator's hard work and claiming it to be their own.
by cranemaster123 May 19, 2014
by You'll never know October 26, 2004
noun
a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances.
to court a female bird.
a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances.
to court a female bird.
by amy lame March 18, 2011