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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



... thinks you're just a plug business man, he gets to shooting off his mouth about economics or literature or foreign trade conditions, and you just ease in something like, 'When I was in college—course I got my B.A. in sociology and all that junk—' Oh, it puts an awful crimp in their style! But there wouldn't be any class to saying 'I got the degree of Stamp-licker from the Bezuzus Mail-order University!' You see—My dad was a pretty good old coot, but he never had much style ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... parted with your defenses and left yourself exposed to mischance. The legend was that in those upper reaches you might be divine; but you were much likelier to be ridiculous. Your public wanted just about eighty degrees; if you gave it more it blew its nose and put a crimp in you. In the morning, especially, it seemed to her very probable that whatever struggled above the good average was not quite sound. Certainly very little of that superfluous ardor, which cost so dear, ever got across the footlights. These misgivings ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... I put a crimp in him," giggled Mr. Burns. "I gave him a chance to show those talents he recommends ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... nosed out something they want to put through. The fools! And after last night nearly havin' finished everything! I told 'em—you heard me—that everybody's to keep under cover now. But they think they've got a soft thing, and they say they're goin' to it. I've got to put a crimp in it, and you've got to help ...
— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... was certainly awful discouragin'. She was tryin' to speak o' Mr. Shores, but she kep' trailin' back to herself, 'n' when she said 't she'd never had time to crimp her hair since her weddin' day she jus' broke right down. I cheered her up all I could. I told her she couldn't with a clear conscience blame any one but herself 'n' she'd ought to say her prayers of gratitude 't she hadn't got eight herself, same 's him. She sort o' choked 'n' said ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner


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