crimper

Other forms of crimper

plural

crimpers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crimper

What does crimper mean?

crimper means "someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crimper?

crimper has 2 syllables: crim-per. The stress falls on "crim".

What is another word for crimper?

Close synonyms include crimp, curler, hair curler, roller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crimper a common word?

crimper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.