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1.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."
2.nounThe natural curliness of wool fibres.
3.noun(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4.nounA card game.
5.verbTo press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate."Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
6.verbTo fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened."He crimped the wire in place."
7.verbTo pinch and hold; to seize.
8.verbTo style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
9.verbTo bend or mold leather into shape.
10.verbTo gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
11.adjectiveEasily crumbled; friable; brittle.
12.adjectiveWeak; inconsistent; contradictory.