Definitions for vamps

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Spelling: [vamp]

IPA: /væmp/

Vamps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in vamps (ampsv).

Definitions for vamps

noun

1. the portion of a shoe or boot upper that covers the instep and toes.
2. something patched up or pieced together.
3. Jazz. an accompaniment, usually improvised, consisting of a succession of simple chords.
4. a seductive woman who uses her sensuality to exploit men.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a vamp, especially to repair (a shoe or boot) with a new vamp.
2. to patch up; repair.
3. to give (something) a new appearance by adding a patch or piece.
4. to concoct or invent (often followed by up):
5. Jazz. to improvise (an accompaniment or the like).
6. to use feminine charms upon; seduce.

verb (used without object)

1. Jazz. to improvise an accompaniment, tune, etc.
2. to act as a vamp.

Origin of vamps

1175-1225; Middle English vampe Anglo-French; Middle French avant-pie, equivalent to avant- fore- (see avaunt) + pie foot (French pied; see -ped

Examples for vamps

Who wants to pick up with anyone they can vamp in the Subway?

Repeat 6th and 7th rows until you have 25 ribs, or the vamp is as deep as desired.

To “vamp” is equal, in musical language, to 34“scamp” or to dodge up.

Well, vamp, you know how to take the length of women's feet.

Haven't got far in the book—'Ow to vamp—but still I'm getting on.

I gathered I had been guilty of falling for the Zerv equivalent of a vamp.

It was inconceivable that the vamp should not be out every evening!

Or did Mrs. Hill vamp you and make roast meat of your heart with her eyes?

But she was just as far from being a "vamp," or even a sort of up-to-date Becky Sharp.

Turn and work across top of vamp with a double in each stitch.