The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
Something patched up or refurbished.
Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
Music An improvised accompaniment.
v.
vamped, vamp·ing, vamps
v.
tr.
To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp.
To patch up (something old); refurbish.
To put together; fabricate or improvise: With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor.
Music To improvise (an accompaniment, for example) for a solo.
v.
intr.Music To improvise simple accompaniment or variation of a tune.
[Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see vanguard + pie, foot (from Latin pēs; see ped- in Indo-European roots).] vamp'er n.
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