Definition

/kɹɪmps/

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.

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.

verb