Definitions
1.verbTo press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate."Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
2.verbTo fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened."He crimped the wire in place."
3.verbTo pinch and hold; to seize.
4.verbTo style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
5.verbTo bend or mold leather into shape.
6.verbTo gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
7.verbTo impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
8.nounThe act by which something is crimped.