crimp
Because it is a word with a single syllable, crimp is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcrimp
- 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.
Example: "The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp."
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A card game.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
Example: "Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation."
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
Example: "He crimped the wire in place."
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
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