ALL meanings of crimp
crimp
C c - verb crimp If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it. 3
- verb crimp To crimp something means to restrict or reduce it. 3
- verb crimp to fold or press into ridges 3
- verb crimp to fold and pinch together (something, such as the edges of two pieces of metal) 3
- verb crimp to curl or wave (the hair) tightly, esp with curling tongs 3
- verb crimp to decorate (the edge of pastry) by pinching with the fingers to give a fluted effect 3
- verb crimp to gash (fish or meat) with a knife to make the flesh firmer and crisper when cooked 3
- verb crimp to bend or mould (leather) into shape, as for shoes 3
- verb crimp to bend the edges of (a metal plate) before forming into a cylinder 3
- verb crimp to hinder 3
- noun crimp the act or result of folding or pressing together or into ridges 3
- noun crimp a tight wave or curl in the hair 3
- noun crimp a crease or fold in a metal sheet 3
- noun crimp the natural wave of wool fibres 3
- noun crimp (formerly) a person who swindled or pressganged men into naval or military service 3
- verb crimp to recruit by coercion or under false pretences 3
- verb transitive crimp to press into narrow, regular folds; pleat or corrugate 3
- verb transitive crimp to make (hair, etc.) wavy or curly 3
- verb transitive crimp to gash (the flesh of a fish, etc.) so as to make the muscles contract and stay firm in cooking 3
- verb transitive crimp to mold or bend (leather for shoe uppers, etc.) into shape 3
- verb transitive crimp to pinch together or fold the edge of (one part) tightly over another 3
- verb transitive crimp to obstruct or hamper 3
- noun crimp the act of crimping 3
- noun crimp a crimped pleat, fold, or part 3
- noun crimp crimped hair 3
- noun crimp wavy condition; esp., the natural waviness of wool fiber 3
- noun crimp a person who gets men by force or trickery to serve as sailors or soldiers 3
- verb transitive crimp to trick or force (men) into service as sailors or soldiers 3
- noun crimp A curl, wave, or folded or compressed edge. 1
- transitive verb crimp hair: make wavy 1
- transitive verb crimp metal: corrugate 1
- transitive verb crimp cookery: pinch together 1
- transitive verb crimp affect adversely 1
- noun crimp hair: wave 1
- verb with object crimp to enlist (sailors, soldiers, etc.) by such means. 1
- noun crimp a person engaged in enlisting sailors, soldiers, etc., by persuasion, swindling, or coercion. 1
- idioms crimp put a crimp in, to interfere with; hinder: His broken leg put a crimp in their vacation plans. 1
- noun crimp 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. 0
- noun crimp (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (Britain, dialect) A coal broker. 0
- noun crimp (Obsolete (No longer in use)) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. 0
- noun crimp (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. 0
- noun crimp (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. 0
- noun crimp (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A card game. 0
- noun crimp An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. 0
- verb crimp To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. 0
- verb crimp To pinch and hold; to seize. 0
- verb crimp To style hair into a crimp. 0
- verb crimp To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches. 0
- verb crimp To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. 0
- adjective crimp (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. 0