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. Example: The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A card game.
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. Example: Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. Example: He crimped the wire in place.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
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