Crimp is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRIMP in dictionary:

VERB:
• to press into folds, flutes or ridges
• compress (something) into small folds or ridges
• connect (a wire or cable) by squeezing the end or ends
• have a limiting or adverse effect on (something)
• fold or press into ridges
• 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.
• To pinch and hold; to seize.
• to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
• 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.
• make ridges into by pinching together
• curl tightly
• make waves in (someone's hair) with a hot iron
NOUN:
• a folded or compressed edge.
• a small connecting piece for crimping wires or lines together.
• a restriction or limitation
• A coal broker.
• One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
• A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
• Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
• A game at cards.
• an angular or rounded shape made by folding
• someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
• a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
• act or result of crimping
ADJECTIVE:
• Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
• Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to pleat

Words related to CRIMP

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Words that contain CRIMP

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How to use CRIMP in a sentence

• Which election had put heart into the more decent set and a crimp in the Currycomb.
• Stick the square end into the cap until it touches the fulminate, and crimp down the copper shell all round with a dull knife to hold the fuse.
• Mould it into cakes, crimp the edges, and bake in a moderate oven.
• Time, in fact, had begun to crimp her face, and the vinegar to sparkle in her eye with that fiery gleam which is so easily lit up at five and thirty.
• Each shower puts an added crimp in my temper, as I have been trying to get a new coat of camouflage paint on the ship.
• I meant to put a crimp in the vanity of that free-information bureau.
• Every time he was given a Crimp in the Rue de la Paix he caught even by leading a new Angora up the Chute and into the Shambles.
• You see, everybody has a different fear to throw a crimp in them.
• Some of the men thought we ought to be vindictive and take every opportunity to put a crimp in the business for the owners.
• He kept telling himself that the shooting of Estan Medina would surely put a crimp in the revolution.
• Do not pinch or crimp the edge of this or any other pie.

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