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vamp1 (vămp)
n.
  1. The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
    1. Something patched up or refurbished.
    2. Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
  2. Music. An improvised accompaniment.

v., vamped, vamp·ing, vamps.

v.tr.
  1. To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp.
  2. To patch up (something old); refurbish.
  3. To put together; fabricate or improvise: With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor.
  4. Music. To improvise (an accompaniment, for example) for a solo.
v.intr. Music
To improvise simple accompaniment or variation of a tune.

[Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see vanguard + pie, foot (from Latin pēs).]

vamper vamp'er n.

vamp2 (vămp) Informal.
n.
A woman who uses her sex appeal to entrap and exploit men.


v., vamped, vamp·ing, vamps.

v.tr.
To seduce or exploit (someone) in the manner of a vamp.

v.intr.
To play the part of a vamp.

[Short forVAMPIRE .]

vampish vamp'ish adj.
vampishly vamp'ish·ly adv.
vampy vamp'y adj.



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