Crimp
WordNet
noun
(1) A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
(2) Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
(3) An angular or rounded shape made by folding
"A fold in the napkin"
"A crease in his trousers"
"A plication on her blouse"
"A flexure of the colon"
"A bend of his elbow"
verb
(4) Curl tightly
"Crimp hair"
(5) Make ridges into by pinching together
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Etymology
, from .
Cognate to Dutch , via Middle Dutch , to Low German , and to Faroese and Icelandic . From or cognate to Old Norse .
Possible cognate to .
Adjective
crimp
- : Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- : Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Noun
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
- : A coal broker. [Provincial England]
- : One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
- : A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- : A game at cards.
Verb
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- He crimped the wire in place.
- To style hair into a crimp.