crimps

Meaning of crimps

verb, 3rd person present
  1. compress (something) into small folds or ridges.
    she crimped the edge of the pie
  2. have a limiting or adverse effect on (something).
    his zeal about his career can crimp the rest of his life
plural noun
  1. a folded or compressed edge.
  2. a restriction or limitation.
    the crimp on take-home pay has been even tighter since taxes were raised

Old English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle’. Of rare occurrence before the 18th century, the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.

Information about crimps

  • The singular form of crimps is: crimp.
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Hyphenation of crimps

crimps

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • crimps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

crimps synonyms

Meaning speak in a melodious way:

flute

Meaning fold into pleats:

pleat

Meaning contract or cause to contract into wrinkles or folds:

corrugate

Meaning disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it:

ruffle

Meaning make a rut, groove, or trail in (the ground or the surface of something):

furrow

Meaning make a groove or grooves in:

groove

Meaning mark with or form into narrow raised bands:

ridge

Meaning make a crease in (cloth or paper):

crease

Meaning form or become marked with lines or folds:

wrinkle

Meaning form into small surface creases or wrinkles:

crinkle

Meaning crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled:

crumple

Meaning (especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds:

pucker

Meaning draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it:

gather

Meaning grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb:

pinch

Meaning another term for ruck2:

ruckle

Anagrams of crimps

scrimp

Words that rhyme with crimps

imps, dimps, gimps, chimps, skimps, Blimps, blimps, flimps, limps, pimps, superpimps, primps, scrimps, shrimps, skrimps, simps, timps, guimps, wimps

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