| Crimp: English to English |
| Crimp (a.) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. |
| Crimp (a.) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. |
| Crimp (n.) A coal broker. |
| Crimp (n.) A game at cards. |
| Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. |
| Crimp (n.) Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl. |
| Crimp (n.) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. |
| Crimp (v. t.) 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. |
| Crimp (v. t.) to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen. |
| Crimp (v. t.) 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. |
| Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize. |