crimping
/ˈkɹɪmpɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- 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.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- The act by which something is crimped.
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