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/kɹɪmp/
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Definition
/kɹɪmp/
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.
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.
adjective
- Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Source: Wiktionary
