vamp
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
- A vampire.
- A volunteer firefighter.
Verb
- To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise: To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- To travel by foot; to walk.
- To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- To pawn.
- To seduce or exploit someone.
- To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- To cosplay a vampire.
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