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Crimping

/ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/

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

📖 Definitions of "Crimping"

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.

verb
  1. 1

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

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which something is crimped.

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