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What (who) is Crimp - definition
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Crimping; Crimper; Crimped; Crimp (disambiguation)
crimp
(crimps, crimping, crimped)
1.
If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
Crimp the edges to seal them tightly.
VERB: V n
2.
To crimp something means to restrict or reduce it. (AM)
The dollar's recent strength is crimping overseas sales and profits.
VERB: V n
Crimp
·noun A coal broker.
II. Crimp ·noun A game at cards.
III. Crimp ·adj Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
IV. Crimp ·adj Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
V. Crimp ·noun Hair which has been crimped;
- usually in ·pl
VI. Crimp ·vt To pinch and hold; to Seize.
VII. Crimp ·noun One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
VIII. Crimp ·vt to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
IX. Crimp ·noun A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
X. Crimp ·vt To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, ·etc.
XI. Crimp ·add. ·vt In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.
XII. Crimp ·vt To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. ·cf. Crisp.
crimp
I. v. a.
1.
Curl, crisp.
2.
Plait, form into ridges.
II. n.
(Colloq.) Decoyman (for the military service), ensnarer, trapanner.
Wikipedia
Crimp
Crimp or crimping may refer to:
- Crimp (climbing), a small hold with little surface area
- Crimp (gambling), a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating
- Crimp (joining), a deformity in metal used to make a join
- Crimp (recruitment) or shanghaiing, to shanghai or conscript men as sailors
- A style of song in the British comedy series The Mighty Boosh
- Crimp (wool), the number of bends per unit of length
- Crimp (electrical), a type of solderless connection
- Crimping pliers, tools for squeezing things together
- Grain crimping, an organic way to preserve feed grain
- Hair crimping, a method of styling hair
- Staple remover, also known as a "crimper"
- Crimp, Cornwall, a hamlet in England, United Kingdom
- Douglas Crimp (1944-2019), American writer, curator, and art historian
- Martin Crimp (born 1956), British playwright
Examples of use of Crimp
1. Flatten, or "crimp," the crimp bead with crimping pliers. 3.
2. The papers tout learned analyses about the credit crimp.
3. Other property firms fell, in part on concerns that higher borrowing costs may eventually crimp earnings.
4. Higher rates also crimp demand as credit becomes harder to pay off.
5. String a crimp bead and the clasp on one end of the wire.