Crimp
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. To style hair into a crimp. To joining the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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. A coal broker. [Provincial England] One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced. A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. A game at cards.
Crimper
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.A hairdresserSomeone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.