Meaning & use
crimping
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Pressing or pinching material into small, regular folds or ridges, or compressing a connector tightly around a wire.
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She spent an hour crimping her hair into tight waves.
The electrician finished the job by crimping the wire ends into their connectors.
A note on using this word
Used both for a hairstyling technique and, unrelatedly, for a method of joining electrical wires or metal parts without soldering.
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