crimpverb [ T ]
uk/krɪmp/us/krɪmp/to press cloth, paper, etc. into small folds along its edges, or to press hair into a series of folds using a heated device
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Hair care
- Alice band
- argan oil
- barrette
- brush
- comb
- curling tongs
- delouse
- gel
- hair lacquer
- hair mousse
- hairdryer
- hairgrip
- hairpin
- mousse
- rinse
- roller
- slick
- slide
- straighteners
- tint
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Making things more or less smooth or straight
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- Crimp edges of the hamburgers all around to hold in the cheese when it melts and begins to run.
- I think that pink silk would be perfectly suitable and real becoming if I crimped my hair and had a black lace bonnet to wear with it.
- She even, as the matrons noticed, took to crimping her hair.