crimp

Meaning

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. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4. (obsolete) A card game.
5. A small hold with little surface area.
6. A grip on such a hold.

curl

kink up

convulate

transition knuckle

edge fold

straight flange

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹɪmp/

From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.