Usually means: Cause disruption or inconvenience to.
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  1. put a crimp in: Merriam-Webster
  2. put a crimp in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put a crimp in: Wiktionary
  4. put a crimp in: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (put a crimp in)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in.
verb:  To spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect.

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