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| 1. n. 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. |  |
| 2. n. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance; a patch. | |
| 3. n. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished. | |
| 4. n. (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 d | |
| 5. n. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time. | |
| 6. v. To patch, repair, or refurbish. | |
| 7. v. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | |
| 8. v. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. | |
| 9. v. (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp, , a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for | |
| 10. v. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear). | |
| 11. v. (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk. | |
| 12. v. (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. | |
| 13. n. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. | |
| 14. n. (informal) A vampire. | |
| 15. v. To seduce or exploit someone. | |
| 16. n. (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter. | |
