crimp Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an angular or rounded shape made by folding
    plication; crease; fold; bend; flexure.
    • a fold in the napkin
    • a crease in his trousers
    • a plication on her blouse
    • a flexure of the colon
    • a bend of his elbow
  2. noun someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
    crimper.
  3. noun a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
  4. verb make ridges into by pinching together
    pinch.
  5. verb curl tightly
    crape; frizz; kink; frizzle; kink up.
    • crimp hair

WordNet

Crimp adjective
Definitions
  1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. R.
    Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. J. Philips.
  2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. R.
    The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.
Crimp noun
Definitions
  1. A coal broker. Prov. Eng. De Foe.
  2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.
  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. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913