VAMP • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Vamp

Listen

verb

Vamp v. t. (past & past part. vamped; pres. part. vamping)

To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; often followed by up. "I had never much hopes of your vamped play."

To create with little skill; to concoct; to invent; usually with up; as, he vamped up an implausible excuse.

See images of 'Vamp'

Etymology of 'Vamp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

Words linked to "Vamp" : patch, doctor, piece of leather, coquet, vamper, butterfly, romance, musical accompaniment, upper, repair, cook up, chat up, adult female, accompaniment, touch on, invent, fix, flirt, prickteaser, furbish up, fabricate, revamp, support, piece, philander, dally, bushel, coquette, minx, woman, mend, backup