crimp

crimp is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
2. transitive verb. To pinch and hold; to seize.
3. transitive verb. to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
4. transitive verb. To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
5. adjective. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
6. adjective. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
7. noun. A coal broker.
8. noun. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
9. noun. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
10. noun. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
11. noun. A game at cards.
12. noun. a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
13. noun. someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers

    Synonyms: crimper

14. noun. an angular or rounded shape made by folding

    "a fold in the napkin"

    "a crease in his trousers"

    Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication

15. verb. curl tightly

    "crimp hair"

    Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink

16. verb. make ridges into by pinching together

    Synonyms: pinch

Synonyms

crimper, bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication, crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, pinch

Common word forms

crimps, crimped, crimper, crimping, crimpness

Words from these letters

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