1. The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
2.
a. Something patched up or refurbished.
b. Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
3. 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 ps; see ped- in Indo-European roots).]
vamper n.
vamp 2(vmp)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.
mp)
s; see ped- in Indo-European roots).]
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