1. The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe. 2a. Something patched up or refurbished. b. Something rehashed, as a book based on old material. 3.Music An improvised accompaniment.
VERB:
Inflected forms: vamped, vamp·ing, vamps
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp. 2. To patch up (something old); refurbish. 3. To put together; fabricate or improvise: With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor.4.Music To improvise (an accompaniment, for example) for a solo.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Music To improvise simple accompaniment or variation of a tune.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see vanguard + pie, foot (from Latin ps; see ped- in Appendix I).
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