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