Associations to the word «Crimp»

CRIMP, adjective. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

CRIMP, adjective. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

CRIMP, noun. 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.

CRIMP, noun. (obsolete) (UK) (dialect) A coal broker.

CRIMP, noun. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

CRIMP, noun. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

CRIMP, noun. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

CRIMP, noun. (obsolete) A card game.

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

CRIMP, verb. To pinch and hold; to seize.

CRIMP, verb. To style hair into a crimp.

CRIMP, verb. To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwiches.

CRIMP, noun. An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]

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

CRIMP, noun. 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".

CRIMP, noun. Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers.

CRIMP, noun. A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled.

CRIMP, verb. Make ridges into by pinching together.

CRIMP, verb. Curl tightly; "crimp hair".