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Rarecrimps
The correct spelling is crimps.
How to pronounce crimps
noun
IPA: /kɹɪmps/
Say it like: Cri-mps
The correct spelling is crimps. 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. For example: "The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp."
Usage Examples
“The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.”
“Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.”
“He crimped the wire in place.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- 3.(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- 4.A card game.
- 5.An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- 1.To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- 2.To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- 3.To pinch and hold; to seize.
- 4.To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- 5.To bend or mold leather into shape.
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