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▸ 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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