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noun

Vamp n.

The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.

(Music) A usually improvized Jazz accompaniment, consisting of simple chords in sucession.

vamp n. A woman who seduces men with her charm and wiles, in order to exploit them.

verb

vamp v. t. & v. i. To seduce (a man) sexually for purpose of exploitation.

Vamp v. t. (past & past part. vamped; pres. part. vamping)

To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; often followed by up. "I had never much hopes of your vamped play."

To create with little skill; to concoct; to invent; usually with up; as, he vamped up an implausible excuse.

Vamp v. i. To advance; to travel. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Vamp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... day on my life has become one of unremitting toil. Together with the rest of the Show Girls I vamp and slouch my way around the clock with ever increasing seductiveness. We are really doing splendidly. The ponies come leaping lightly across the floor waving their freckled, muscular arms from side to side and looking very unattractive indeed in ...

— Biltmore Oswald - The Diary of a Hapless Recruit • J. Thorne Smith, Jr.

... Not half as vulgar as it is. You will be known during your fifteen years as a ragtime kid, a flapper, a jazz-baby, and a baby vamp. You will dance new dances neither more nor less gracefully than you danced the ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... old stories of one kind and another, as they happened to find them, and vamp them up to suit their purposes; stories, old or new, they did not much ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

... eye. "The old boy believed in solid comfort. You wouldn't think to look at this that he'd spent years on a bronc's back buckin' blizzards. Some luxury, I'll say! Looks like one o' them palaces of the vamp ladies the ...

— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine

... cassock grew, And both assumed a sable hue; But, being old, continued just As threadbare, and as full of dust. His talk was now of tithes and dues: Could smoke his pipe, and read the news; Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamp'd in the preface and the text; At christ'nings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wish'd women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrow'd last; Against dissenters ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

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