Vamp

Definitions: Vamp

Vamp

Noun

1. A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.

2. An improvised musical accompaniment.

3. Piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe.

Verb

1. Make up; "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting".

2. Piece (something old) with a new part; "vamp up an old speech.

3. Act seductively with (someone).

4. Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

VAMP

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Vamp

Change

Work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes.

Fop

Fine lady, coquette; flirt, vamp.

Improvement

Touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair; (restore); put in order; (arrange).

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Crosswords: Vamp

Czech (vamp), French (vamp), German (vamp), Spanish (vamp), Swedish (vamp).

You're from L.A., so you can skip the written, but let's see. Vamp nail polish. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp ("Pour Some Sugar On Me"; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Vamp Till Ready (1938)

Venice Vamp (1932)

The College Vamp (1931)

A Homespun Vamp (1922)

Exit the Vamp (1921)

Revolution Baby (performing artist: Transvision Vamp)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Camp Vamp (Elvira , No 2) (reference)

• Rocky Mountain Vamp (Spur No. 4) (reference)

• Tempest Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp (reference)

• Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, With a Filmography (reference)

• Vamp! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Vamp Stamp News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Vamp (reference)

• Teen Vamp (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stiletto Vamp [BOX SET] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Camp and Vamp (4 pack) Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "vamp": vamp up. Additional references.

Ending with "vamp": kind-of-casual-but-vamp, re-vamp.

Albanian

vë faqe këpucës, sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, weave), josh (attract, bewitch, charm, dangle, dazzle, decoy, deprave, draw, entice, inveigle, lure, lure away, seduce, tempt, wile), improvizoj (extemporize, improvise), improvizim (extemporization, impromptu, improvisation), femër fatale, faqe këpuce, arnoj (cobble, doctor, mend, patch), arnë këpuce. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرعة الحذاء, ‏مغوية الرجال, ‏تغوي الرجال, ‏إخترع (concoct, contrive, fabricate, invent, think up), ‏رقعة (distance, label, uplift), ‏شىء مرقع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

набързо скърпено нещо, подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, renovate, reopen, reproduce, restore, resume, revamp, take up), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true), предница на обувка, безскрупулна флиртаджийка, авантюристка (adventuress), жена вамп, държа се като жена вамп, набързо скалъпено нещо, съблазнявам (allure, entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt), впримчвам (decoy, ensnare, entrap, implicate, mesh, noose, snare), кръпка на обувка, кърпя (mend, patch, repair, translate), флиртувам (dally, flirt, gallant, gallivant, mash, philander, toy), слагам предница на обувка, скърпвам (fudge, piece together, piece up, tinker), съблазнителка (seductress, temptress), закърпвам (darn, mend, patch, piece, piece up, revamp, stitch up). (various references)

Czech

vamp, svršek (top), svùdnice, slátanina (hotchpotch, patchwork). (various references)

Danish

overlaeder (shoeupper, upper), forblad. (various references)

Dutch

vordustak, voorstuk (antecedent, paletot, shoulder), voorschoen. (various references)

Farsi 

قدم زدن (Gait, Pace, Pad, Step, Stride, Stroll, Traipse), گام زدن برروی , وسوسه وازراه بدرکردن , وصله کردن (Clobber, Clout, Patch, Piece), وصله (Imp, Inset, Patch, Splotch), تمهیدکردن , تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Patch, Refashion, Refit, Rehash, Remodel, Renovate, Repair, Restore, Tinker), سرهم بندی کردن (Bollix, Bunlge, Jerrybuild, Railroad), جوراب کوتاه , رویه (Comportment, Cover, Instep, Ism, Metier, Procedure, Scheme, Surface, Tack, Tenor, Top, Upper), بالبداهه گفتن ویاساختن . (various references)

Finnish

symmetrinen etupäällinen (symmetric vamp), epäsymmetrinen etupäällinen (flying vamp). (various references)

French

vamp, rafistoler, rafistolage, rafistolé, jouer la femme fatale, improviser, enjoliver, empeigne, devant, claque. (various references)

German

vamp. (various references)

Greek 

κν.φόντι, σειρήν (siren), ξελογιάζω (captivate, entice, seduce), μπαλώνω (cobble, darn, mend, tinker), μαγεύω (bewitch, charm, hex, witch), ερωτότροποσ γυνή (jilt), ερωτοτροπώ (court, dally, flirt, philander, smooch), επισκευάζω (mend, put right, refit, repair, to repair, to touch up), επάνω μέροσ υποδήματοσ, άνω μέρος υποδήματος, ανακαινίζω (do out, do over, recondition, redecorate, reface, reform, refurbish, renovate, revamp), αυτοσχεδιάζω μουσική, αυτοσχεδιάζω (extempore, extemporise, improvise, play it by ear). (various references)

Hebrew 

לווי מוסיקלי מאולתר, לערפ�", ערפו�" (vamping, vampirism), � צל� ית. (various references)

Hungarian

különféle darabok összerakása, cipõt kijavít, cipõfelsõrész. (various references)

Italian

rimonta (rise, rise drift, turnover, up brow), mascherina (blanket, dust mask, dust respirator, radiator grill, radiator louvres, radiator shutter, respirator, shutter, stencil, usherette), fare la rimonta. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

妖女 (enchantress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ようじょ (adopted daughter, enchantress, foster daughter, little girl). (various references)

Manx

cur eaghtyr er braag. (various references)

Pig Latin

ampvay.(various references)

Portuguese

gáspea (uppers). (various references)

Romanian

vampã (siren), stoarce bani (bleed, exact), peticire (patchwork), petic (patch, rag, shred), improviza un acompaniament, femeie fatalã, cãputã (instep, upper), cârpi (botch, bungle, cobble, darn, mend, patch up, piece, repair, spoil, stitch up, vamp up), cârpãcealã (botching, cobble, patchwork), acompaniament improvizat. (various references)

Russian 

союзка в обуви, чинить (amend, bushel, cobble, darn, do up, refit, repair), заплата (botch, clout, patch), латать (patch), передок обуви. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavodnica (temptress), zavoditi (seduce), zakrpiti (mend, patch, piece), zakrpa (mend, patch), improvizovati (extemporize, improvise, jam), improvizovana muzička pratnja, gornji deo cipele. (various references)

Spanish

vampiresa, vamp, remiendo (botch, mend, repair), remendar (doctor, doctor up, mend, patch, patch up, repair, revamp, tinker, to darn, to mend), poner empella, pala (bat, battledore, blade, fan blade, paddle, palm, Peel, racket, scoop, server, setting, shovel, spade, spadeful, vane), improvisar (ad lib, extemporize, fake, improvise, jam, throw off), improvisación musical, flirtear (flirt, philander), engatusar (cajole, coax, draw on, get round, hoodwink, jolly, lead on, palaver, wheedle), empella (lard), empeine (instep, upper, uppers), componer (arrange, compose, compound, consist in, dispose, integrate, make up, order, reconcile, refit, repair, set, set type, set up, snap out of it, throw in, trim, trim up, write), chanclo (clog, galosh, golosh, overshoe). (various references)

Swedish

vampa, vamp, uppsnyggning, snygga upp (do up, smarten up, tidy up), ovanläder (upper), lappverk (patchwork), lappa ihop (doctor, fudge, patch up), improvisera (adlib, extemporize, fake, gag, improvise), improvisation (extemporization, impromptu, improvisation), ackompanjemang (accompaniment, backing, descant). (various references)

Turkish

vamp kadın, yeniden ortaya çıkarma, yama (botch, darn, patch), saya, müziğe eşlik etmek, doğaçlamadan çalmak, basit ve notasız eşlik, baştan çıkartmak, şuh kadın. (various references)

Ukranian 

шкарпетка (sock), латка (botch, clout, patch), лагодити (amend, darn, do up, mend, piece, piece up, refit, repair, revamp), передок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đ� n b� m�"i ch� i đ� n ông. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vamp": vamped, vamper, vampers, vamping, vampire, vampires, vampiric, vampirish, vampirism, vampirisms, vampish, vamps. (additional references)

Words ending with "vamp": revamp. (additional references)

Words containing "vamp": revamped, revamper, revampers, revamping, revamps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avma, Avmd, avp, bamp, Ivamy, Ovambo, svamp, vaim, vam, vame, vami, vampe, vampi, vampo, vampy, vapt, Vasp, veam, veap, velp, vem, vemd, vemp, vep, vimb, vimo, vimp, vm, vma, Vmap, Vmmu, vms, vom, vomp, vpm, vsm, vum, vup. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: amp, map, pam.

-2 letters: am, ma, pa.

+1 letter: vamps.

+2 letters: revamp, vamped, vamper.

+3 letters: impavid, revamps, vampers, vamping, vampire, vampish.

+4 letters: pavement, pivotman, primeval, revamped, revamper, vampires, vampiric.

+5 letters: champleve, impactive, impassive, passivism, pavements, primavera, privatism, revampers, revamping, vampirish, vampirism, vasospasm, verapamil.

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