vamp

1. (переходный)To patch, repair, or refurbish.

2. (переходный)Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.

   provide (a shoe) with a new vamp

3. (переходный)To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

4. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

   (переходный и непереходный, конкретно, переходный)To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).

5. (переходный)To attach a vamp (to footwear).

6. (переходный и непереходный, диалектное)To travel by foot; to walk.

7. (непереходный)To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.

   Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

   She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.

8. (непереходный, переходный)To seduce or exploit someone.

9. (сленг, переходный)To turn (someone) into a vampire.

10. (непереходный)To cosplay a vampire.

    I'm planning to vamp real hard at Friday night's party.

11. (Британия, устаревшее, сленг, переходный)To pawn.

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