Crimps
/kɹɪmps/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:12 ptsWWF:15 pts6 letters
Definition of Crimps
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.
"The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp."
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A card game.
verb
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
"Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
"He crimped the wire in place."
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
noun
- An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
- (specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
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