Meaning of crinkler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that crinkles.
   colloquial, uncommon
2. Someone that crinkles.
   archaic, colloquial
3. Something that makes a crinkling sound.
   colloquial, rare
4. A diaper lover, especially a furry (a diaperfur).
   slang, uncommon

Examples

“The general idea was to write the amount in ink and then run or stamp over it with a crinkler which so roughened the paper that alterations seemed impossible. However, it was soon found that the check man laid such checks ona glass andsmoothed down the ruffling.”

“The brass comes to Oxford in these rolls from the metal mills in Birmingham. The rolls are passed through crinklers, then the crinkled brass is planished, it is cut into correct length, seamed and packed into groups or sets.”

“He brought them up only recently, roasted them for about an hour and one-half in a slow oven, at 250 degrees, on a baking sheet, and then ground the beans in a wheat crinkler.”

“The barber set to work with scissors and clippers, electric buzzers and pruning shears. Then he tried crinklers and curlers, hair stretchers and even his X-ray blowgun. A crowd began to gather. Elmo was embarrassed by all the attention. "It's just a haircut," he said.”

“Using a paper crinkler on metal gives some really exciting effects. Buy the strongest one that you can. Start by cutting the metal into long strips and putting them through the crinkler.”

“In my exploration of using a crinkler to crinkle, I am looking at what happens to a variety of material when placed between the two heated metal plates of a hair crinkler.”

“Laundry-workers, we read, need different temperaments according to the departments in which they are employed. An expert collar-crinkler, for instance, might lack the dash necessary in the shirt-ripping room.”

“Sense of audience participation is strong even among the more phlegmatic audiences in England, where each person tends to view those others round their seats merely as sniffers, shufflers, paper crinklers, or as obstructionists who block out most of the view.”

“I've never been a big fan of nose crinklers, but she did it in a way that was so cute I had trouble believing that that crinkled nose was on the face of a lawyer for a major corporation.”

“The wrapper-crinkler, the squirmer, the know-it-all—they all show up in Small Mouth Sounds, a new play that brings the ins and outs of retreat to the stage.”

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