Search Details
Word: crimp
(lookup usage)
(lookup stats)
Meaning:
Adjective:
- obsolete: Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- obsolete: Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
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.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »
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.
Source: Wiktionary
| Src Info »