Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
By analogy with putting a crimp in a pipe or hose, thereby slowing or stopping the flow of liquid through it.
