NOUN
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  • Definition - The natural curliness of wool fibres.
  • Example - The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  • Definition - (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  • Example - The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  • Definition - A card game.
  • Example - The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
VERB
  • Definition - To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
  • Example - Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
  • Definition - To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - To pinch and hold; to seize.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - To bend or mold leather into shape.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
NOUN
  • Definition - An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - (specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
  • Definition - A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
VERB
  • Definition - To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
  • Example - He crimped the wire in place.
Words in your word
6 Letter Words
crimps 12 scrimp 12
5 Letter Words
crimp 11 crips 9 crisp 9 prims 9 prism 9 scrim 9 scrip 9
4 Letter Words
crip 8 imps 8 mics 8 mips 8 pics 8 prim 8 simp 8 spic 8 cris 6 mirs 6 rims 6 rips 6
3 Letter Words
imp 7 mic 7 pic 7 cis 5 ism 5 mir 5 mis 5 pis 5 psi 5 rim 5 rip 5 sic 5 sim 5 sip 5 sir 3 sri 3
2 Letter Words
mi 4 pi 4 is 2 si 2