vamp
noun
[ vamp ]
• (in jazz and popular music) a short, simple introductory passage, usually repeated several times until otherwise instructed.
• "the title track has an overlong vamp"
• the upper front part of a boot or shoe.
• "heavy lace-ups with basket weave in the vamp"
vamp
verb
• repair or improve something.
• "the production values have been vamped up"
Similar:
refurbish,
renovate,
modernize,
redecorate,
revamp,
make over,
restore,
recondition,
rehabilitate,
overhaul,
repair,
redevelop,
rebuild,
reconstruct,
remodel,
update,
bring up to date,
improve,
upgrade,
refit,
re-equip,
refurnish,
bring something up to code,
do up,
fix up,
give something a facelift,
tart up,
vamp up,
patch up,
rehab,
• repeat a short, simple passage of music.
• "the band was vamping gently behind his busy lead guitar"
• attach a new upper to (a boot or shoe).
Origin:
Middle English (denoting the foot of a stocking): shortening of Old French avantpie, from avant ‘before’ + pie ‘foot’. The musical sense of the verb developed from the general sense ‘improvise’.
vamp
noun
• a seductive woman who uses her sexual attractiveness to exploit men.
• "the film-makers never allow her to become a truly saucy vamp"
Similar:
seductress,
temptress,
siren,
femme fatale,
enchantress,
Delilah,
Circe,
Lorelei,
Mata Hari,
flirt,
coquette,
tease,
mantrap,
vamp
verb
• blatantly set out to attract.
• "she had not vamped him like some wicked Jezebel"
Origin:
early 20th century: abbreviation of vampire.
