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Crimping
/ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
📖 Definitions of "Crimping"
verb
- 1
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
"Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
- 2
To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
"He crimped the wire in place."
- 3
To pinch and hold; to seize.
- 4
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
verb
- 1
To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
noun
- 1
The act by which something is crimped.
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