Definition of "crease" []

• A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling. (noun)
• Sports A rectangular area marked off in front of the goal in hockey and lacrosse. (noun)
• Sports One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines. (noun)
• To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in. (verb-transitive)
• To graze or wound superficially with a bullet. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Now school-age girls can get "double eyelids" for 2000 yuan ($250) — a procedure favored by aspiring stars — where a crease is added to the eyelids to make the eyes appear larger."
• "If Bloomberg wanted to raise revenue with the tax in crease then what matters is whether total revenue is raised."
• "That's a 400% profit in crease .... people are so ignorant ... it's sad."