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Noun vamp has 3 senses
- coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser - a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
--1 is a kind of woman, adult female
- vamp - an improvised musical accompaniment
--2 is a kind of accompaniment, musical accompaniment, backup, support
- vamp - piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
--3 is a kind of piece of leather
--3 is a part of upper
Verb vamp has 4 senses
- vamp, vamp up - make up; "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting"
--1 is one way to fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- vamp, vamp up - piece (something old) with a new part; "vamp up an old speech"
--2 is one way to patch, piece
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- vamp - act seductively with (someone)
--3 is one way to chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- vamp, revamp - provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots"
--4 is one way to repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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