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Crimp   /krɪmp/   Listen
noun
Crimp  n.  
1.
A coal broker. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
3.
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
4.
Hair which has been crimped; usually in pl.
5.
A game at cards. (Obs.)
Boot crimp. See under Boot.


verb
Crimp  v. t.  (past & past part. crimped; pres. part. crimping)  
1.
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; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. "The comely hostess in a crimped cap."
2.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
3.
Hence, To entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. "Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him."
4.
(Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
5.
(Firearms) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the charge.
Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.
Crimping iron.
(a)
An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair.
(b)
A crimping machine.
Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc.
Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.


adjective
Crimp  adj.  
1.
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. (R.) "Now the fowler... treads the crimp earth."
2.
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. (R.) "The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves."





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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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