crimp
/kɹɪmp/ verb C2- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. · Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. · He crimped the wire in place.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- to hold using a crimp
He/she/it crimps · Past crimped · Past participle crimped · -ing form crimping
Verb forms
- Base form
- crimp
- He/she/it
- crimps
- Past
- crimped
- Past participle
- crimped
- -ing form
- crimping
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