Definitions
1.AdjectiveEasily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2.AdjectiveWeak; inconsistent; contradictory.
3.NounA 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."The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp."
4.NounThe natural curliness of wool fibres.
5.NounHair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
6.NounA card game.
7.NounA small hold with little surface area.
8.NounA grip on such a hold.
9.VerbTo press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate."Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
10.VerbTo fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened."He crimped the wire in place."
11.VerbTo pinch and hold; to seize.
12.VerbTo style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
13.VerbTo bend or mold leather into shape.
14.VerbTo gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
15.Verbto hold using a crimp
16.NounAn agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
17.NounOne 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.
18.NounA keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
19.VerbTo impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.