"put a crimp in" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with putting a crimp in a pipe or hose, thereby slowing or stopping the flow of liquid through it.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> a crimp in"
      },
      "expansion": "put a crimp in (third-person singular simple present puts a crimp in, present participle putting a crimp in, simple past and past participle put a crimp in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_a_crimp_in-en-verb-7d17ozhY",
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put#English"
        ],
        [
          "crimp",
          "crimp#English"
        ],
        [
          "in",
          "in#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gay Fifer, The River in Egypt",
          "text": "This put a crimp in my style, so I was determined we were going to find our own place faster than the timetable we'd set ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See",
          "text": "Everyone had expected the economic recession to put a crimp in Davis's ambitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Devon Vaughn Archer, Love Is In The Air",
          "text": "Would marriage somehow put a crimp in your image as a beautiful, successful and single newscaster?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gail Loreth, Sarah’s Revenge, page 57",
          "text": "It sure would put a crimp in things to have any vandalism happen here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_a_crimp_in-en-verb-Hp3F9wYW",
      "links": [
        [
          "spoil",
          "spoil"
        ],
        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ],
        [
          "badly",
          "badly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a crimp in"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By analogy with putting a crimp in a pipe or hose, thereby slowing or stopping the flow of liquid through it.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a crimp in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> a crimp in"
      },
      "expansion": "put a crimp in (third-person singular simple present puts a crimp in, present participle putting a crimp in, simple past and past participle put a crimp in)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, crimp, in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put#English"
        ],
        [
          "crimp",
          "crimp#English"
        ],
        [
          "in",
          "in#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Gay Fifer, The River in Egypt",
          "text": "This put a crimp in my style, so I was determined we were going to find our own place faster than the timetable we'd set ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See",
          "text": "Everyone had expected the economic recession to put a crimp in Davis's ambitions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Devon Vaughn Archer, Love Is In The Air",
          "text": "Would marriage somehow put a crimp in your image as a beautiful, successful and single newscaster?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Gail Loreth, Sarah’s Revenge, page 57",
          "text": "It sure would put a crimp in things to have any vandalism happen here.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spoil; to affect badly, preventing the usual or desired effect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spoil",
          "spoil"
        ],
        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ],
        [
          "badly",
          "badly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a crimp in"
}