1797 P. Luckombe (ed. 9) 13 Crimp Houses in London destroyed by mobs.
1871 H. Kingsley 309 Such few of them as had not been picked up at San Francisco, had been got, drunk, out of the crimp-houses in the port from which we had sailed.
2006 T. Jenks i. 47 Rumours spread that a young man..had jumped to his death from the window of a London crimp house.