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1. An angular or rounded shape made by folding
   "a crimp in the napkin";
   - fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend
    
2. Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
   - crimper
    
3. A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled

1. Make ridges into by pinching together
   - pinch
    
2. Curl tightly
   "crimp hair";
   - crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink

Derived forms: crimped, crimps, crimping

Type of: abductor, angular shape, angularity, curl, fold, fold up, kidnaper [US], kidnapper, lock, ringlet, snatcher, turn up, wave, whorl

Encyclopedia: Crimp