EGAVE

crimp

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  2. adjective Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
  3. noun A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
    The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  4. noun The natural curliness of wool fibres.
  5. noun Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  6. noun A card game.
  7. noun A small hold with little surface area.
  8. noun A grip on such a hold.

Similar words

pinch crease flexure bend fold plication kink frizzle frizz crape

Often followed by

in the and bead is beads or on of

Word family

crimped crimper crimpers crimping crimps

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