crimp
verb /krɪmp/
/krɪmp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they crimp | /krɪmp/ /krɪmp/ |
| he / she / it crimps | /krɪmps/ /krɪmps/ |
| past simple crimped | /krɪmpt/ /krɪmpt/ |
| past participle crimped | /krɪmpt/ /krɪmpt/ |
| -ing form crimping | /ˈkrɪmpɪŋ/ /ˈkrɪmpɪŋ/ |
- crimp something to make curls in somebody’s hair by pressing it with a heated tool
- crimped blonde hair
- crimp something to press cloth, paper, etc. into small folds
- She crimped the edge of the pie.
- crimp something (North American English, informal) to limit the growth or development of something
- Shrinking state revenues have crimped security budgets.
Word OriginOld English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle’. Rare before the 18th cent., the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.