CRIMP
Definition of CRIMP
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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."
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The natural curliness of wool fibres.
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(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
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To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
"Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
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To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
"He crimped the wire in place."
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To pinch and hold; to seize.
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Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
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Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Source: Wiktionary