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Word: crimp (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • obsolete: Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  • obsolete: Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

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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.
  • obsolete: A coal broker. [Provincial England]
  • obsolete: A game at cards.
  • obsolete: A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  • obsolete: One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
  • in plural A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

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Verb:

  • food To joining the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.
  • To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
  • To style hair into a crimp.

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