vamp

IPA: vˈæmp

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.

(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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