Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which crimps or corrugates. Specifically— A machine for stretching and forming the uppers of boots and shoes.
- n. An apparatus for bending leather into various shapes, used in harness-making.
- n. A double pin or other device for crimping the hair.
- n. An apparatus consisting of a pair of fiuted rolls for ruffling or fluting fabrics.
- n. A machine for bending wire into corrugations previous to weaving it into wire cloth.
- n. A stamping-press for forming tinware.
- n. A machine for swaging the ends of blind-slats.
- n. A tool for crimping cartridge-cases.
Wiktionary
- n. Small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- n. chiefly UK hairdresser.
- n. Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- n. A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- n. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- n. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- n. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- n. A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- n. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
- n. a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
Examples
“HITS “The crimper is extremely useful for making leaders.” —”
“Ms. Lamarre might be so bullish on perms because, when she came of age circa 1999, super-straight hair, as worn by Gwyneth Paltrow, was in vogue, the flatiron having at least temporarily superseded the crimper.”
“Instead, I stayed under the crimper where it was more secure, brought my left foot over right in a hideously unbalanced move, and stood up and grabbed the next big jug right-handed while I was falling off.”
“I also got a new 5.8 last week, which I repeated yesterday, and this time I managed to figure out a repeatable way to do it rather than clinging to a slopy crimper with my aching fingertips and scrabbling up to the next hold on tiny skiddy footholds before I popped off.”
“So, $100/hr in 1977 dollars, selling cheap-ass pins you make on the crappy little crimper you bought from this crook.”
“So, here we have President Malcom J. Roebuck telling me, with a look of dead-eyed seriousness, that I can make $25 to $100 per hour by making and selling "metal pin-back badges" made with his $35 button crimper doohickey.”
“Here's an excuse to blow the dust off your crimper and go digging for the Hypercolor in the bottom of your T-shirt drawer: Polaris Project, in collaboration with Cause for a Dance Party, is hosting a 1980s and '90s-themed soiree for charity at Dupont Circle's Darlington House.”
The Washington Post: A Whole Lot of '80s With a Pinch of the '90s Dance Party
“Who can forget the image of the old rodent taking his false teeth out to use as a pie-crimper?”
“This is an anonymous expose written by a crimper & snipper to the stars, "a celebrity hairdresser who runs his own salon and hair product empire in London".”
“Sometimes it can be a career crimper: Simon has had more than a dozen gold and platinum recordings-but probably would have sold even more if she had not given up touring in 1971.”
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ruzuzu Wordnet has this: "Someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers." Sep 12, 2010