Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To pinch and hold; to seize.
- 3transitive verb
to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5adjective
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- 6adjective
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
- 7noun
A coal broker.
- 8noun
One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
- 9noun
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- 10noun
Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
- 11noun
A game at cards.
- 12noun
a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
- 13noun
someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
Synonyms
- 14noun
an angular or rounded shape made by folding
"a fold in the napkin"
"a crease in his trousers"
- 15verb
curl tightly
"crimp hair"
- 16verb
make ridges into by pinching together
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