Vamp

Quick meaning: Vamp is a noun meaning Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.

Meaning

Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.

More Meanings

1. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
2. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
3. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
4. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
5. 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.
6. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Their dark brown shoes had hand-stitched vamps.

He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.

The flow of water was in my ears, and in my eyes a hazy spreading, and upon my brain a closure, as a cobbler sews a vamp up.

'Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven; 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.'

Word Forms

• vamps
• vamping
• vamped

Synonyms for vamp

Depending on context, synonyms include enchantress, man-eater, mantrap, seductress, siren, temptress.

Antonyms for vamp

Common opposites include ingenue, Casanova, rake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flirt, tease, prickteaser, minx, coquette, revamp.

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