Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) of weather, unpleasant; of a place, cold.

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1931

1897		J. London ‘The Road’ in Hendricks & Shepherd Jack London Reports (1970) 311–21: crimpy, cold.
1907		J. London Road 26: It was the fall of the year, and [...] I could expect ‘crimpy’ weather, and every moment of delay increased the frigid hardships of the journey.
1914		Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Sl. 27: crimpy [...] Cold, applied to the weather.
1927		‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V 442: Crimpy weather, Bad weather.
1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 57: Crimpy Weather. – Inclement weather.