transitive verb. To press or pinch into small regular folds or ridges.

transitive verb. To bend or mold (leather) into shape.

transitive verb. To cause (hair) to form tight curls or waves.

transitive verb. To have a hampering or obstructive effect on.

noun. The act of crimping.

noun. Something made by or as if by crimping, as.

noun. Hair that has been tightly curled or waved.

noun. A series of curls, as of wool fibers.

noun. A crease or bend.

noun. An obstructing or hampering agent or force.

noun. A person who tricks or coerces others into service as sailors or soldiers.

transitive verb. To procure (sailors or soldiers) by trickery or coercion.

To bend back or inward; draw together; contract or cause to contract or shrink; corrugate. Specifically

To bend (the uppers of boots) into shape.

To indent (a cartridge-case), or turn the end inward and back upon the head, in order to confine the charge; crease.

To cause to contract and pucker so as to become wrinkled, wavy, or crisped, as the hair; form into short curls or ruffles; flute; ruffle.

In cookery, to crimple or cause to contract or wrinkle, as the flesh of a live fish or of one just killed, by gashing it with a knife, to give it greater firmness and make it more crisp when cooked.

To pinch and hold; seize.

To kidnap; decoy for the purpose of shipping or enlisting, as into the army or navy. See the extract.

To be very stingy.

noun. That which has been crimped or curled; a curl or a waved lock of hair: generally used in the plural.

noun. A crimper.

noun. One who brings persons into a place or condition of restraint, in order to subject them to swindling, forced labor, or the like; especially, one who, for a commission, supplies recruits for the army or sailors for ships by nefarious means or false inducements; a decoy; a kidnapper. Such practices have been suppressed in the army and navy, and made highly penal in connection with merchant ships.

noun. A certain game at cards.

Easily crumbled; friable; brittle; crisp.

Not consistent; contradictory.

adjective. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

adjective. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

transitive verb. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to. Cf. crisp.

transitive verb. To pinch and hold; to seize.

transitive verb. to entrap into the military or naval service.

transitive verb. To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife

transitive verb. In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.

transitive verb. a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.

transitive verb. A crimping machine.

transitive verb. a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc.

transitive verb. an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

noun. A coal broker.

noun. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

noun. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

noun. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.

noun. A game at cards.

noun. See under Boot.

verb. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

adjective. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

adjective. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

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.

noun. A coal broker.

noun. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

noun. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

"But they said the increased stability of the entire system would be worth any short-term crimp in lending."

abductor  curl  kidnapper  snatcher  wave  

Blimp  blimp  chimp  imp  limp  

coiffed  flyaway  grained  kink  laid-out  

Vandyke  abduce  abduct  abductor  aqueduct  

crimped  crimping  crimps