crimp

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Synonyms: crisp, crip, crump, primp, crime, cramp, scrimp, chimp, crim, cimp, crims

Antonyms: crisp, crip, crump, primp, crime, cramp, scrimp, chimp, crim, cimp, crims

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Adjective

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. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4. A card game.
5. A small hold with little surface area.
6. A grip on such a hold.

Verb

1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
   • Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
2. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
   • He crimped the wire in place.
3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
5. To bend or mold leather into shape.
6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
7. to hold using a crimp

Noun

1. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
2. One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

1. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

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