Dictionary

churn out en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To produce a large quantity of (something) rapidly and easily.
   • Near-synonym: crank out
   • Barbara Cartland was renowned for her ability to churn out romantic novels.
   • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
   • Stan Myles adds that the Griffiths are still among us, too—still grinding out their fears and fantasies in the guise of “relevant” flicks, most of which turn out to be variations on the same old theme […] writers still churn out quick-buck distortions of the truth; but issues are avoided like the plague; white filmsters—in a frenzy of self-abasement, perhaps—have succeeded only in being more subtle instead of less racist; and even some black filmsters—in a rush for questionable glory—have created one-dimensional portraits of their people. 1972 May, B. J. Mason, “Black Cinema Expo ’72”, in Ebony, volume 27, number 7, page 160:
   • Yet another seriously under-par performance is unlikely to provide any real answers to their remarkable plummet in form - but it proves they can at least churn out a much-needed result. 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC:

Forms

Coordinates

turn out · throw together · slap together

Deriveds

churnalism

Synonyms

crank out

Translations (19)

pl natworzyć (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · cmn 大量生产 (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · cmn 大量炮制 (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · fr torcher (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · fi suoltaa (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · fi syytää ulos (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · es producir profusamente (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · de ausstoßen (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · de in Massen produzieren (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · pl naprodukować (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · bg бълвам (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · ru выпуска́ть потоком (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · de produzieren (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · ru штамповать (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · sv spotta ur sig (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · es confeccionar efusivamente (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · cs sekat jako Baťa cvičky (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · it sfornare (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily) · cs dělat jako na běžícím pásu (to produce a large quantity of something rapidly and easily)