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crimps

/kɹɪmps/

crimps is the plural of crimp.

crimps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crimp.

Meaning of crimp

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

  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.
  2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
  3. (plural-normally) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  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.1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio)...
  5. A small hold with little surface area.
  6. A grip on such a hold.

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Phrases with crimps

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Questions about crimps

What is crimps the plural of?
Crimps is the plural of crimp.
How do you pronounce crimps?
Crimps is pronounced /kɹɪmps/.

Words near crimps in the dictionary

  1. crimpled
  2. crimplene
  3. crimples
  4. crimpling
  5. crimpness
  6. crimps
  7. crimpy
  8. crims
  9. crimson
  10. crimson clover
  11. crimson finch

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