Dictionary entry

Crimp (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Crimp, n. 1. A coal broker. De Foe.

2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service. Marryat.

3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

4. Hair which has been crimped; — usually in pl.

5. A game at cards. B. Jonson.

Boot crimp. See under Boot.