vamp
To patch, repair, or refurbishTo patch, repair, or refurbish.
Meaning
11 senses(transitive)To patch, repair, or refurbish.
(transitive)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
(transitive)To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
(ambitransitive, specifically, transitive)To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
(transitive)To attach a vamp (to footwear).
(ambitransitive, dialectal)To travel by foot; to walk.
(intransitive)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.
(intransitive, transitive)To seduce or exploit someone.
(slang, transitive)To turn (someone) into a vampire.
(intransitive)To cosplay a vampire.
I'm planning to vamp real hard at Friday night's party.
(UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To pawn.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper orFrom Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).
Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.
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Forms
vamps, vamping, vamped, vampedSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle