crimp

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

1. 1
   Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. 2
   Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun

1. 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. 2
   The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. 3
   Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4. 4
   A card game.
5. 5
   A small hold with little surface area.
6. 6
   A grip on such a hold.
7. 7
   An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
8. 8
   One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
9. 9
   A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

1. 1
   To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
2. 2
   To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
3. 3
   To pinch and hold; to seize.
4. 4
   To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
5. 5
   To bend or mold leather into shape.
6. 6
   To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
7. 7
   to hold using a crimp
8. 8
   To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.