crimp

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So when Ifill asked her about what promises she and McCain had made that the $700 billion Wall Street bailout might crimp, her answer was all about how she broke up oil monopolies in Alaska.

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  1. transitive verb To press or pinch into small regular folds or ridges: crimp a pie crust.
  2. transitive verb To bend or mold (leather) into shape.
  3. transitive verb To cause (hair) to form tight curls or waves.
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  • The grip of the tape will retain it Pour a small amount of finely powdered low-explosive into the blasting cap and crimp or tape it into place. —  20-ImprovisedInitiators
  • NOTE: If cartridge is of roll-crimp type, remove top wad. —  16-ModifiedAmmunition
  • I have desired that your brother may buy his men from a Charing Cross crimp, that he may not be spoilt by recruiting, and am happy that I can name him as aide-de-camp. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
  • The report looks backward at job losses already posted but traders still don't want to see big expansions of the number of people out of work because it is likely to crimp the economy's attempts to recover. —  Channel3000.com - Local News
  • Generally a happy person by nature this is fine until you realize that this might put a crimp in your social calendar.
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kink ·  laid-out ·  flyaway ·  light-brown ·  coiffed ·  grained ·  whiten

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crimp:   crimped ·  crimping ·  crimps
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Dutch or Low German krimpen, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English *crimpen (found only as in freq. crimple and other derivatives) = Middle Dutch, Dutch krimpen = Middle Low German Low German krimpen = Old High German chrimphan, krimfan, Middle High German krimphen, krimpfen (a strong verb, preterit kramp, past participle krumpen), bend together, contract, shrink, shrivel, diminish (cf. Swedish krympa = Danish krympe, shrink, prob. from Low German): in form the orig. verb of which cramp, crump, crimple, crumple are secondary or deriv. forms: see cramp, v. and n., and cf. crim, cram.
  2. from crimp, v.
  3. Related to crimp, v., as cramp, a., to cramp, v.
 

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