vamp

• Delilah
• Jezebel
• beguile
• beguiler
• charmer
• coquet
• coquette
• court
• dally
• enchantress
• entice
• femme fatale
• flirt
• flirter
• fool
• frivol
• jade
• josh
• kid
• lead on
• lure
• manipulate
• mash
• mess around
• put on
• razz
• rib
• seducer
• seductress
• sex symbol
• sexpot
• siren
• soubrette
• string along
• tease
• tempt
• temptress
• toy
• tramp
• trifle
• wanton
• woo

• noun
  1. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
  2. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
  3. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
  4. A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
  5. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
  6. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
  7. A vampire.
  8. A volunteer firefighter.
• verb
  1. To patch, repair, or refurbish.
  2. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
  3. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
  4. (shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
  5. To travel by foot; to walk.
  6. To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
  7. To seduce or exploit someone.

• The singer gave an impressive vamp on the piano before starting the song.
• She wore a striking red dress with a daring vamp design.
• The actor had to quickly come up with a vamp when he forgot his lines on stage.
• The guitarist played a cool vamp while waiting for the rest of the band to join in.
• Her vamp routine at the cabaret was a hit with the audience.

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