crimp

1 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" [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend]

2 someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers [syn: crimper]

3 a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled

1 make ridges into by pinching together [syn: pinch]

2 curl tightly; "crimp hair" [syn: crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink]

English

Pronunciation

• /kɹɪmp/, /krImp/

• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Adjective

crimp

1. : Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. : Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun

1. 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.

2. : A coal broker. [Provincial England]
3. : One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
4. : A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
5. (usually in plural): A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
6. : A game at cards.

Verb

1. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

   He crimped the wire in place.

2. To style hair into a crimp.

References

Crimp(ing) may refer to:

• Crimp (rapping), a form of friendly rapping pioneered by Howard Moon and Vince Noir from The Mighty Boosh
• Crimp (climbing), a small hold with little surface area
• Crimp (gambling), a bent corner of a card to faciltate cheating
• Crimp (joining), a deformity in metal used to make a join
• Crimp (recruitment), to shanghai or conscript men as sailors
• Crimp (wool), the number of bends per unit of length
• Crimping pliers, tools for squeezing things together
• Grain crimping, an organic way to preserve feed grain
• Hair crimping, a method of styling hair

See also

• Creep (disambiguation)
• Cramp

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