vamp

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Noun

1. The part of hose or stockings which covers the foot and ankle; a sock or short stocking. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. 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.
3. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
4. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
5. 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.
6. An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.

Verb

1. To patch, repair, or refurbish.
2. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
3. 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”).
4. To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
5. To attach a vamp (to footwear).
6. To travel by foot; to walk.
7. To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
   • Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!
   • She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.
8. To pawn.

Noun

1. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
2. A vampire.

Verb

1. To seduce or exploit someone.
2. To turn (someone) into a vampire.
3. To cosplay a vampire.
   • I'm planning to vamp real hard at Friday night's party.

Noun

1. A volunteer firefighter.

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