A small furrow, ridge, or crease on a normally smooth surface, caused by crumpling, folding, or shrinking.
A line or crease in the skin, as from age.
A clever trick, method, or device, especially one that is new and different.
A problem or imperfection; a fault: The report had to be revised because of a few wrinkles.
v.
wrin·kled, wrin·kling, wrin·kles
v.
tr.
To make wrinkles or a wrinkle in.
To draw up into wrinkles; pucker: wrinkled her nose in disdain.
v.
intr. To form wrinkles.
[Middle English, back-formation from wrinkled, wrinkled, probably from Old English gewrinclod, past participle of gewrinclian, to wind, crease; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.] wrin'kly adj.