(krimp) v.t.
1. To bend or press into ridges or folds; corrugate; flute.
2. To indent and close, as a cartridge case; crease.
3. To bend into shape, as the uppers of boots.
4. To gash the flesh of with a knife, as fish before cooking, in order to make it firmer and crisper.
5. To curl or wave: to crimp the hair.
—noun
1. Anything crimped; especially, in the plural, waved or curled hair.
2. A crimping machine; crimper.
3. An offset in a piece of structural steel, used to fit one piece over another.
4. A collapse or breakdown of wood fibers, due to inherent weakness or a too rapid drying of timber.
—adjective
1. Brittle and crisp; friable.
2. Inconsistent or contradictory.
3. Stiff, as if starched. [<MDu. crimpen wrinkle, draw together]
—crimp′age noun
—crimp′er noun
—crimp′y adjective

(krimp) noun
One who procures the impressment of sailors, soldiers, etc., by decoying or entrapping them.
—v.t. To decoy or entrap into forced military or naval service. [Origin uncertain]