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CRIMPS

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

CRIMPS is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

CRIMPS root CRIMP-s

Word family

CRIMP 2 CRIMPING-ing 11 CRIMPED-ed 5
adjective
  1. obsoleteEasily crumbled; friable; brittle.
  2. obsoleteWeak; inconsistent; contradictory.
noun
  1. 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 strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
  2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
  3. Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
  4. obsoleteA card game.
  5. A small hold with little surface area.
  6. A grip on such a hold.
  7. An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
  8. specificallyOne who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
  9. obsoleteA keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
verb
  1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
    • Cornish pasties are crimped during preparation.
  2. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
    • He crimped the wire in place.
  3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
  4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
  5. To bend or mold leather into shape.
  6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
  7. to hold using a crimp
  8. transitiveTo impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.