Usually means: Musical phrase repeated in accompaniment.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word vamp:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. vamp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vamp, vamp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vamp, vamp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vamp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vamp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vamp, vamp: Wordnik
  7. vamp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vamp: Wiktionary
  9. vamp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vamp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vamp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vamp: Dictionary.com
  13. vamp (n.), vamp (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. The Vamp (film), The Vamp, V.A.M.P. (G.I. Joe), VaMP, Vamp (Gobots), Vamp (Metal Gear), Vamp (TV series), Vamp (band), Vamp (comics), Vamp (film), Vamp (music), Vamp (shoe), Vamp (woman), Vamp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Vamp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. vamp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. vamp: Rhymezone
  18. Vamp (m), vamp, vamp, vamp (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. vamp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Vamp: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. VAMP, vamp: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Vamp: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. vamp: Free Dictionary
  24. vamp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. vamp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Vamp: World Wide Words
  27. vamp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vamp (disambiguation), vamp: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vamp (disambiguation), vamp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. VAMP, Vamp (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. VAMP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. vamp: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vamp (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. vamp, vamp, vamp, vamp, vamp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. vamp: The Folk File
  4. vamp: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vamped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
noun:  Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
verb:  (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
verb:  (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
verb:  (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
verb:  (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”).
verb:  (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
verb:  (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To pawn.
noun:  A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
noun:  (informal) A vampire.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
verb:  (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
noun:  (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.

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