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Crimp   /krɪmp/   Listen
Crimp

noun
1.
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"
2.
Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers.  Synonym: crimper.
3.
A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled.





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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books



... they belonged to you. The crimp gave them to me with the rest of that fellow's belongings, and I took the liberty of sorting out these and saving ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
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... as he was called by the natives, had come to Samoa in the fifties, and, after an eventful and varied experience in other portions of the group, had settled down to business in Matautu as a publican, baker and confectioner, butcher, seamen's crimp, and interpreter. You might go all over the Southern States, from St. Augustine to Galveston, and not meet ten such splendid specimens of negro physique and giant strength as this particular coloured gentleman. Tom had ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
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... agreed John. "The old A.E.F. did have a hand, though, in putting a crimp in the Kaiser's little plan for acquiring title to the whole human race for himself and family. But if the American people don't wake up to the fact that the same identical principles of human right and human ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
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... will; the landlady and a tattered maid were Venus and Hebe by turns; for my own part, shunning to be Ganymede, I slunk into an outhouse and shared its privacy with some scared fowls and a drover of the Garfagnana, who, taking me at first for a crimp, ran at me gibbering with a knife. I pacified him, luckily, before it was too late, and crouched with him until daylight, expecting discovery at every outcry. Not until then did the house seem asleep. But about cockcrow there was a silence as of the dead, and ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett
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... For the annual meeting. Well, you put a crimp in me then. Just by passing that dividend you dropped me so flat that I lost every ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
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Words linked to "Crimp" :   angular shape, pleat, crape, wave, twirl, snatcher, plait, spit curl, curl, flute, ringlet, lock, abductor, fold up, kiss curl, kidnapper, turn up, twist, angularity, ruck, pin curl, pucker, kidnaper, whorl


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