English Dictionary

crimp

/kɹɪmp/

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.

I need to buy a crimp for my hair.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

The natural curliness of wool fibres.

意味（3）

(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

意味（4）

(obsolete) A card game.

Lady Loadstone: Laugh, and keep company, at gleek or crimp. / Mistress Polish: Your ladyship says right, crimp sure will cure her.

意味（5）

(climbing) A small hold with little surface area.

意味（6）

(climbing) A grip on such a hold.