Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which crimps or corrugates. Specifically— A machine for stretching and forming the uppers of boots and shoes.
- noun An apparatus for bending leather into various shapes, used in harness-making.
- noun A double pin or other device for crimping the hair.
- noun An apparatus consisting of a pair of fiuted rolls for ruffling or fluting fabrics.
- noun A machine for bending wire into corrugations previous to weaving it into wire cloth.
- noun A stamping-press for forming tinware.
- noun A machine for swaging the ends of blind-slats.
- noun A tool for crimping cartridge-cases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- noun A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- noun A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- noun chiefly UK
hairdresser . - noun Someone who adds
pleats tofabric for clothes, drapery, etc. - noun A tool used to
crimp , to join two pieces of metal. - noun A curved board or frame over which the
upper of aboot orshoe isstretched to the required shape. - noun A device for giving
hair awavy appearance. - noun A machine for crimping or ruffling
textile fabrics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
- noun a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
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Examples
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So, here we have President Malcom J. Roebuck telling me, with a look of dead-eyed seriousness, that I can make $25 to $100 per hour by making and selling "metal pin-back badges" made with his $35 button crimper doohickey.
Boing Boing 2009
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Ms. Lamarre might be so bullish on perms because, when she came of age circa 1999, super-straight hair, as worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, was in vogue, the flatiron having at least temporarily superseded the crimper.
The Perm Is Back nytimes.com 2011
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So, $100/hr in 1977 dollars, selling cheap-ass pins you make on the crappy little crimper you bought from this crook.
Boing Boing 2009
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Ms. Lamarre might be so bullish on perms because, when she came of age circa 1999, super-straight hair, as worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, was in vogue, the flatiron having at least temporarily superseded the crimper.
The Perm Is Back nytimes.com 2011
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Instead, I stayed under the crimper where it was more secure, brought my left foot over right in a hideously unbalanced move, and stood up and grabbed the next big jug right-handed while I was falling off.
mama says you gotta go to the baptist fashion show standuponit 2009
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I also got a new 5.8 last week, which I repeated yesterday, and this time I managed to figure out a repeatable way to do it rather than clinging to a slopy crimper with my aching fingertips and scrabbling up to the next hold on tiny skiddy footholds before I popped off.
mama says you gotta go to the baptist fashion show standuponit 2009
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Here's an excuse to blow the dust off your crimper and go digging for the Hypercolor in the bottom of your T-shirt drawer: Polaris Project, in collaboration with Cause for a Dance Party, is hosting a 1980s and '90s-themed soiree for charity at Dupont Circle's Darlington House.
A Whole Lot of '80s With a Pinch of the '90s Dance Party 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word crimper
Wordnet has this: "Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers."
September 12, 2010