crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
(verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: pinch |
crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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(noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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(noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
(noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
(verb) fish for shrimp | - |
shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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shrimpy | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, runty |
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superimpose | (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superpose |
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superimposed | (adjective) with one layer on top of another | Synonyms: layered |
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(adjective) placed on or over something else | Synonyms: overlying |