Crimp or crimping may refer to:
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Crimp (climbing)
Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing. ebook:
The terms used can vary between different English-speaking countries; ...
, a small hold with little surface area
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Crimp (gambling)
In gambling terminology a crimp is a bend that has been intentionally made on the corner(s) of a playing card to facilitate identification.
A card cheat will typically bend some of the important cards during the game. Below are just several of ...
, a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating
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Crimp (joining)
Crimping is a method of joining two or more pieces of metal or other Ductility, ductile material by Deformation (engineering), deforming one or both of them to hold the other. The bend or deformity is called the crimp. Crimping tools are used to ...
, a deformity in metal or food dough used to make a joint. Commonly used to connect electrical components.
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Crimp (recruitment)
Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping were known as ''crimps''. The related term ''press gang'' ...
or shanghaiing, to shanghai or conscript men as sailors
*A style of song in the British comedy series
''The Mighty Boosh''
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Crimp (wool)
Wool classing is the production of uniform, predictable, low-risk lines of wool, carried out by examining the characteristics of the wool in its raw state and classing (grading) it accordingly. Wool classing is done by a wool classer.
Basis for ...
, the number of bends per unit of length
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Crimp (electrical)
Crimping is a method of joining two or more pieces of metal or other ductile material by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. The bend or deformity is called the crimp. Crimping tools are used to create crimps.
Crimping is used exte ...
, a type of solderless connection
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Crimping pliers
Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe. They are also useful for bending and physically compressing a wide range of materials. Generally, pliers consist ...
, tools for squeezing things together
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Grain crimping
Grain crimping or moist grain crimping is an agricultural technology, an organic way to preserve feed grain into livestock fodder by fermentation.
Crimped grain brings health benefits to the animals and economic benefits such as cost savings an ...
, an organic way to preserve feed grain
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Hair crimping
Hair crimping is a method of styling usually straight, long hair so that it becomes wavy, often in a sawtooth / zig-zag fashion. In the Southern United States, it is usually referred to as crimping, but also can be called crinkles or deep waves. ...
, a method of styling hair
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Staple remover
A staple remover (also known as a destapler) is a device that allows for the quick removal of a Staple (fastener), staple from a material without causing damage. The best-known form of staple remover, designed for light-American wire gauge, gaug ...
, also known as a "crimper"
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Crimp, Cornwall
Crimp is a hamlet in the parish of Morwenstow, Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The count ...
, a hamlet in England, United Kingdom
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Douglas Crimp
John Douglas Crimp (August 19, 1944 July 5, 2019) was an American art historian, critic, curator, and AIDS activist. He was known for his scholarly contributions to the fields of postmodern theories and art, institutional critique, dance, film, ...
(1944-2019), American writer, curator, and art historian
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Martin Crimp
Martin Andrew Crimp (born 14 February 1956 in Dartford, Kent) is a British playwright.
Early life and career
The son of John Crimp, a British Rail signalling engineer, and his wife Jennie, Crimp's family moved in 1960 to Streatham where he att ...
(born 1956), British playwright
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