| VERB | contact | crimp, pinch | make ridges into by pinching together |
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| contact | crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink | curl tightly | |
| NOUN | shape | crimp, fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend | an angular or rounded shape made by folding |
| person | crimp, crimper | someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors / sailors or soldiers | |
| body | crimp | a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled |
| Sounds | krih'mp | |
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| Rhymes | blimp / Blimp ... wimp / WIMP: 11 rhymes with ihmp... | |
| Meaning | An angular or rounded shape made by folding. | |
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| Synonyms | fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend | |
| Narrower | kink, twist, twirl | A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight |
| pleat, plait | Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | |
| pucker, ruck | An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) | |
| Broader | angular shape, angularity | A shape having one or more sharp angles |
| Spanish | arruga, dobladura, doblez, plegado, pliegue, raya | |
| Catalan | doblec, replec, séc | |
| Verbs | crimp | make ridges into by pinching together |
| Meaning | someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors / sailors or soldiers. | |
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| Synonym | crimper | |
| Broader | kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher | someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) |
| Meaning | A lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled. | |
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| Narrower | pin curl | A curl of hair made by dampening a strand of hair and curling it and holding the curl with a clip or bobby pin |
| spit curl, kiss curl | A spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek | |
| Broader | lock, curl, ringlet, whorl | A strand or cluster of hair |
| Verbs | crimp | curl tightly |
| Meaning | make ridges into by pinching together. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | pinch | |
| Narrower | flute | form flutes in |
| Broader | fold, fold up, turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other |
| Nouns | crimp | an angular or rounded shape made by folding |
| Meaning | curl tightly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They crimp their hair | |
| Example | "crimp hair" | |
| Synonyms | crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink | |
| Broader | curl, wave | Twist or roll into coils or ringlets |
| Spanish | arrugar, encrespar, ondular, retorcer, rizarse, rizar | |
| Catalan | arrissar-se, arrissar, cargolar-se, cargolar, crespar, ondular | |
| Nouns | crimp | a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled |
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