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crimp
  • (adjective)
    1. : Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
    2. : Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
  • (noun)
    1. 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.
    2. : A coal broker. [Provincial England]
    3. : One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
    4. : A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
    5. A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
    6. : A game at cards.
  • (verb)
    1. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
      He crimped the wire in place.
    2. To style hair into a crimp.