Definitions for crimp

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Spelling: [krimp]

IPA: /krɪmp/

Crimp is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in crimp (cimpr).

Definitions for crimp

noun

1. the act of crimping.
2. a crimped condition or form.
3. Usually, crimps. waves or curls, especially in hair that has been crimped or that displays a crimped pattern.
4. the waviness of wool fibers as naturally grown on sheep.
5. the waviness imparted to natural or synthetic fibers by weaving, knitting, plaiting, or other processes.
6. a crease formed in sheet metal or plate metal to make the material less flexible or for fastening purposes.
7. a person engaged in enlisting sailors, soldiers, etc., by persuasion, swindling, or coercion.

Idioms

1. put a crimp in, to interfere with; hinder:

verb (used with object)

1. to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
2. to curl (hair), especially with the use of a curling iron.
3. to press or draw together, as the ends of something.
4. to check, restrain, or inhibit; hinder:
5. Cookery. to pinch and press down the edges of (a pie crust), especially to seal together the top and bottom layers of pastry. to gash (the flesh of a live fish or of one just killed) with a knife to make more crisp when cooked.
6. to produce a corrugated surface in; corrugate, as sheet metal, cardboard, etc.
7. to bend (leather) into shape.
8. Metalworking. to bend the edges of (skelp) before forming into a tube. to fold the edges of (sheet metal) to make a lock seam.
9. to enlist (sailors, soldiers, etc.) by such means.

Origin of crimp

1350-1400; Middle English crympen, Old English gecrympan to curl, derivative of crump crooked

Examples for crimp

The lockout may not put a crimp in the day of the typical sports fan.

It might also put a bit of a crimp in the economies of states like New York and Delaware.

It was made by crimp, of Nassau Street, and box and all cost four pound twelve.'

Hydraulic fracking is helping put a crimp on Russian Oligarchs, extending even to the Kremlin.

Fold over the edges and crimp, then trim any remaining excess.

Mining companies argue that the tax will crimp investment in a vital sector of the economy.

That may put a crimp in their plans, check the invasion up above.

A crimp had carried this chap on board, dumped him, got his ten dollars and left.

Close and crimp the edges nicely, and fry the rissoles in butter.

Prick them with a fork, and crimp or scollop the edges neatly.