Usually means: Deform metal or fiber permanently.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. crimp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crimp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crimp, crimp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crimp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crimp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crimp, crimp: Wordnik
  7. crimp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crimp: Wiktionary
  9. crimp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crimp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crimp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crimp, crimp: Dictionary.com
  13. crimp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crimp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crimp (electrical), Crimp (gambling), Crimp (joining), Crimp (metalworking), Crimp (recruitment), Crimp (song), Crimp (wool), Crimp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crimp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crimp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crimp: Rhymezone
  19. Crimp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crimp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Crimp: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. crimp: Free Dictionary
  23. crimp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. crimp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. crimp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crimp: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crimp (recruitment): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crimp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crimp: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRIMP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crimp, crimp, crimp, crimp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Crimp: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
adjective:  (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
noun:  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.
noun:  The natural curliness of wool fibres.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
noun:  (obsolete) A card game.
noun:  (climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
noun:  (climbing) A grip on such a hold.
verb:  To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
verb:  (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
verb:  To pinch and hold; to seize.
verb:  To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
verb:  To bend or mold leather into shape.
verb:  To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
verb:  (climbing) to hold using a crimp
noun:  An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
noun:  (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
noun:  (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
verb:  (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

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