noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp." technical device machine industry building utility technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The natural curliness of wool fibres. Examples : "The wool's value increased because of its tight, defined crimps. " quality material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. Examples : "After braiding her wet hair overnight, she woke up with interesting crimps all over her head. " appearance style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A card game. Examples : "My brother and I played crimps at the library after school. " game entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. Examples : "Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation." appearance style material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. Examples : "He crimped the wire in place." technical machine industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To pinch and hold; to seize. Examples : "The electrician crimps the connector onto the end of the wire. " action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. Examples : "Before the dance, Maria crimps her hair to give it a wavy texture. " appearance style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To bend or mold leather into shape. Examples : "The shoemaker carefully crimps the leather around the last to form the shape of the boot. " material industry work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. Examples : "The chef crimps the sea bass before frying it, hoping the cuts will make the skin extra crispy. " food fish action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. Examples : "Back in the 1800s, sailors in port towns had to be wary of crimps who would trick or force them onto ships for dangerous voyages. " nautical military job person history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. Examples : "During the port's maritime history reenactment, volunteers playing crimps tried to lure sailors away from their ships with promises of better pay and easier work, a practice that was illegal without proper authorization. " nautical sailing law government job history commerce Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. Examples : ""The old port town was notorious for its crimps, who lured unsuspecting sailors into their lodging houses and stole their wages." " nautical job business person commerce industry history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. Examples : "The con artist crimps young travelers by promising them high-paying jobs abroad, only to steal their money. " military nautical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
