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crimper
  1. A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
  2. (chiefly Britain) A hairdresser.
  3. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
  4. Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
  5. A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
  6. An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
  7. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
  8. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “As they are being snipped and pampered in a South London beauty parlour, crimper Paul teases out the secrets as he cuts and blows.”
      “News has filtered through that celebrity crimper Charles Worthington is now up to his clippers in cash.”
      “A tool that already existed for decorating ceramics, a rouletting wheel is similar to a pie crimper in both appearance and function.”
crimp
  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.
  2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A coal broker.
  3. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
  4. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  5. (plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  6. (obsolete) A card game.
  7. A folded or compressed edge.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “A murderous son could put a real crimp in his re-election campaign.”
      “She was gone. There was only a dent in the pillow and a crimp in the sheets, a faint flavor of perfume to remind me that she was here at all.”
crimp
  1. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them.
  2. (specifically, law) 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.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A murderous son could put a real crimp in his re-election campaign.”
      “She was gone. There was only a dent in the pillow and a crimp in the sheets, a faint flavor of perfume to remind me that she was here at all.”
crimpage
  1. The act or practice of crimping, or entrapping soldiers or sailors into service.
  2. Money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
crimpness
  1. The state or quality of being crimp.
crimping
  1. The act by which something is crimped.
crimpings
  1. plural of crimping
crimpers
  1. plural of crimper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As coated stents become more widely used, it is time to address contamination and product defect issues associated with traditional crimpers.”
      “The same is true for styling tools like hot curlers, curling irons or crimpers.”
      “Using the correct setting on the crimpers squeeze down on the fitting to crimp and secure it to the cable.”
crimps
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