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What does crimp mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word crimp? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Noun
  1. 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.
  2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
  3. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
  4. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  5. (plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  6. (obsolete) A card game.
  7. A folded or compressed edge.
Verb
  1. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
  2. To pinch and hold; to seize.
  3. To style hair into a crimp.
  4. To join the edges of food products.
Noun
  1. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them.
  2. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
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