The word "crimp" is correct and usable in written English.
Primarily, it is used as a verb meaning to press or fold something so that it has ridges or pleats. For example, "She used the crimping iron to give her hair a wavy look."
The lack of water has put a serious crimp in the hydroelectric line at Hoover Dam and other power plants across the west, limiting an inexpensive and pollution-free energy source that once was considered endless.
Roll out the rest of the pastry to the size of the dish, moisten the top edges of the base, then lift on top and crimp together the edges to seal.
Bankers accept they will be forced to build up bigger capital buffers, which will crimp profitability, and that the liquidity of their balance-sheets will be policed more intensively.
In the midst of the financial crisis, he said he regretted his shrunken salary because it put a crimp on his charitable giving.
BT claims Ofcom's move will crimp its ability to bid for sports rights and thus reduce competition.The regulatory conundrum is about to become more complicated.
Since then, government has been unable to put an absolute crimp on growth.
In the longer run, ever more stringent restrictions on carbon emissions and ever higher efficiency standards for vehicles around the world will presumably help crimp demand for oil.At the OPEC powwow Mr al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, argued that a low oil price always sowed the seeds of a future price rise, since it led to underinvestment.
They accuse Mr Obama of scheming to opt out of spending curbs that currently crimp the budget, though these are "the law of the land".
Skimping on investment in infrastructure, education and health will crimp future growth.Restructuring the public finances was precisely the platform on which Mrs Arroyo was re-elected last year.
The wide availability of free illegal alternatives may well crimp these efforts.In this sense the pertinent parallel is not with music or films but with newspapers and magazines.
It would seize the opportunity to do these things without putting any real crimp in economic growth.
