Crossword-Solution: CRIMP 5 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Crimp	v. t.	To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
Crimp	v. t.	To pinch and hold; to seize.
Crimp	v. t.	to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
Crimp	v. t.	To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
Crimp	a.	Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Crimp	a.	Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
Crimp	n.	A coal broker.
Crimp	n.	One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
Crimp	n.	A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
Crimp	n.	Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
Crimp	n.	A game at cards.

We have 78 clues for the answer “CRIMP”

Clue	Answers
Pinch and press, as pie crust edges	1 answer
Pinch, as in pie crust	1 answer
Pinch, as an empanada's edge	1 answer
Pinch, as a piecrust	1 answer
Pinch together	1 answer
Pinch the edges of a piecrust	1 answer
Pinch into small folds	1 answer
Pinch into folds or flutings.	1 answer
Pinch into folds	1 answer
Pinch edges (as a piecrust)	1 answer
Pinch, as pie crust	1 answer
Mark a playing card, in a way	1 answer
Make wavy, with a curling iron	1 answer
Make waves in	1 answer
Make one's hair groovy?	1 answer
Make into tight curls	1 answer
Make curly	1 answer
Make corrugated	1 answer
Form tight curls in	1 answer
Seal, as a piecrust	1 answer
someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers	1 answer
make ridges into by pinching together	1 answer
WOOL wave	1 answer
Use a hair-curler	1 answer
Use a curling iron	1 answer
Tight perm	1 answer
Small hindrance, as in plans	1 answer
Series of pleats.	1 answer
Gash meat for crisper cooking	1 answer
Put waves in	1 answer
Put a wave in	1 answer
Put a ___ in (interfere with)	1 answer
Press into small folds	1 answer
Press into folds	1 answer
Press in narrow folds.	1 answer
Pinch, as the edge of a piecrust	1 answer
Pinch, as piecrust	1 answer
Fold or pleat.	1 answer
Form ringlets in	1 answer
Angular hair wave	1 answer
Bend into shape	1 answer
Bend or curl	1 answer
Cause to curl	1 answer
Crease or fold	1 answer
Create waves in, as hair or pie crust edges	1 answer
Fingertips-only rock-climbing grip	1 answer
Finish a pastry crust	1 answer
Finish a pie crust	1 answer
Make wavy	4 answers
Corrugate	4 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REETA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CRIMP (5)

Your public wanted just about eighty degrees; if you gave it more it blew its nose and put a crimp in you.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Well, the babies love me, they don’t care if I am thin and pale and haven’t time to crimp my hair, they are my comfort, and some day John will see what I’ve gladly sacrificed for them, won’t he, my precious?” To which pathetic appeal Daisy would answer with a coo, or Demi with a crow, and Meg would put by her lamentations for a maternal revel, which soothed her solitude for the time being.

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996

This gentleman’s name, by the way, had been originally Crimp; but as the word was susceptible of an awkward construction and might be misrepresented, he had altered it to Crimple.

Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 2006

But if Joel doesn't watch out I'll put a crimp in him myself." Lucy hurried away down the lane and entered the house without meeting any one.

Wildfire Zane Grey 2000

You're better--not badly hurt?" she said, gravely, "I--I'm so glad." "I've got a crimp in my back, that's all." Lucy was quick to see that after the first glance at her he was all eyes for Sage King.

Wildfire Zane Grey 2000

Quotes with CRIMP (1)

I waited in vain for someone like me to stand up and say that the only thing those of us who don't believe in god have to believe is in other people and that New York City is the best place there ever was for a godless person to practice her moral code. I think it has to do with the crowded sidewalks and subways. Walking to and from the hardware store requires the push and pull of selfishness and selflessness, taking turns between getting out of someone's way and them getting…

Sarah Vowell The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 81 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).