crimp
verb- crimp something
to make curls in somebody’s hair by pressing it with a heated tool 烫发；使（头发）拳曲；使（头发）成波形 crimped blonde hair 烫卷的金发。
- crimp something
to press cloth, paper, etc. into small folds 把（织物或纸）压出皱纹；使起皱 She crimped the edge of the pie. 她将馅饼的边缘压出了褶。
- crimp something (North American English, informal)
to limit the growth or development of something 阻止，妨碍（某事物的发展） Shrinking state revenues have crimped security budgets. 州政府收入的减少已经影响了安全预算。
Word OriginOld English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle’. Rare before the 18th cent., the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.