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How to pronounce “crimp”

Hear “crimp” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for crimp

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of crimp with real speech in context.
Available examples: 3 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The secret to living longer may be your social lifeAnd she showed me how to make just the right crimp
Definition summary: (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

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The secret to living longer may be your social life

And she showed me how to make just the right crimp

[Adjective]
(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
(obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
[Noun]
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
(usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
(obsolete) A card game.
(climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
(climbing) A grip on such a hold.
[Verb]
To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
(electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
To pinch and hold; to seize.
To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
To bend or mold leather into shape.
To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
(climbing) to hold using a crimp