crimped

/kɹɪmpt/

verb

  1. 1

    To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.

    Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
  2. 2

    To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

    He crimped the wire in place.
  3. 3

    To pinch and hold; to seize.

  4. 4

    To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.

  5. 5

    To bend or mold leather into shape.

  6. 6

    To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

verb

  1. 1

    To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

adjective

  1. 1

    With a crimp in it; crushed shut.

    The crimped edges had been welded in earlier models.

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