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Crimp

noun

An angular or rounded shape made by folding. Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication. "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"

Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers. Synonym: crimper.

A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled.

verb

(past & past part. crimped; pres. part. crimping)

Make ridges into by pinching together. Synonym: pinch.

Curl tightly. Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up.

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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a very small amount, taking care to charge an enormous price for every article. The poor fellows, by these means, are placed under a sort of espionage, if not close confinement, till the ship is ready to receive them; and then they are conducted on board at Gravesend by the Crimp and his assistants, and a receipt ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... thousands of stitches! The ruffles ran up and down, and over and across, and three times round. Being white, the garments were of course changed daily. In the intervals of baby-tending, the mother snatched a few minutes here and a few minutes there to starch, iron, flute, or crimp a ruffle, or to finish off a dress of her own. This "finishing off" was carried on for weeks. When her baby was asleep, or was good, or had its little ruffles all fluted, and its little sister's little ruffles were all fluted, then ...

— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz

... stirred up a special called meeting of the school board and has gone and gotten us suspended from the team! He's raised a terrific rumpus about football in general and has tried to get the big game of the year with Edgewood canceled but he can't get away with that. He's influential enough to put a crimp in the team, though, and to put a crimp in us in particular, by getting the board to have us kicked off the eleven just when we're needed most. I hope you won't think I'm handing myself bouquets on purpose but I'm the best backfield man the team's got and I've already told you how ...

— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman

... crimp in Casey Ryan's spine is good enough for anybody. Bring her out here and show me how yuh work the damn thing. Guess she'll hold six Bohunks, won't she—with sideboards on? I'll run 'er around a coupla times b'fore I start out—and that's all I ...

— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower

... follow vict'ry. Jeff emerges like Diana from the bath an' frales the wamus off me with a club. Talk of puttin' a crimp in folks! Gents when Jeff's wrath is assuaged I'm all on one side like the leanin' tower of Pisa. Jeff actooally confers a skew-gee ...

— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis

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