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Meaning of crimped

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

crimped

Pronunciation:/kɹɪmpt/

verb

Definitions

  1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

    Example: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.

  2. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

    Example: He crimped the wire in place.

  3. To pinch and hold; to seize.

  4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

verb

Definitions

  1. To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

adjective

Definitions

  1. With a crimp in it; crushed shut.

    Example: The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models.