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Crimp

noun

An angular or rounded shape made by folding. Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication. "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"

Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers. Synonym: crimper.

A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled.

verb

(past & past part. crimped; pres. part. crimping)

Make ridges into by pinching together. Synonym: pinch.

Curl tightly. Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up.

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"Crimp" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough boiling water to dissolve it. When dissolved, add enough alcohol to make it rather thin. Let this stand all night and then bottle it to prevent the alcohol from evaporating. This put on the hair at night, after it is done up in papers or pins, will make it stay in crimp the hottest day, and ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... did not ship you, as I was not in the shipping office; but I bargained with a crimp for sixteen men, and he gave me fourteen ...

— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... year, chestnut seed was stratified in perforated cans in the open ground with fairly good results. Last fall, we tried the method used and described by Dr. Crane and Dr. McKay in the 1946 report of this Association. Crimp top cans were used with nail holes in the top and bottom. Instead of using regular storage facilities, the cans were stored in a concrete block storage pit built below the floor of the garage. This proved very successful. Not only were the nuts ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... growing boy, with a growing boy's appetite; consequently on the morning of his second day of fasting he came to the conclusion that, with so much of his life before him, a few months wasted would, after all, have no material bearing on his future; so he accepted a two months advance from a crimp and shipped aboard the American barkentine Retriever as a common A.B.—a most disgraceful action on the part of a boy, who, since eighteenth birthday, had been used to having old sailors touch their foretop to him and address him as "Mr. ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... thus we parted. But two days ago, when Sir Geoffrey Kneller's pictures were to be sold, she went to my sister Gower, and very civily asked if she intended to bid for your picture; assuring her that, if she did, she would not offer at purchasing it. You know crimp and quadrille incapacitate that poor soul from ever buying any thing; but she told me this circumstance; and I expected the same civility from Mrs. Murray, having no way provoked her to the contrary. But she not only came to the auction, but with all possible spite ...

— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville

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