vamp
IPA: vˈæmp
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.
- (music) 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.
- (by extension) 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.
- (informal) A vampire.
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
verb
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To pawn.
- (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
- (fiction, transitive) To turn into a vampire.
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Examples of "vamp" in Sentences
- Naomi and Vamp are to be in MGS4.
- I am not fitted to be a vamp type.
- The vamp is sewn on top of the quarters.
- Marge tells the story of Shady and the Vamp.
- She played the role of a vamp in this movie.
- I'm obviously not that happy with the re vamp.
- He is in a relationship with Zara, a manipulative vamp.
- The attempted re vamp by Dreamer was not an improvement.
- This can be in reference to either the outsole or the vamp.
- The vamp is connected to the upper at the top of the moccasin.