vamp

vamp is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To advance; to travel. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To advance; to travel.
2. noun. The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
3. noun. Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
4. transitive verb. To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
5. noun. piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
6. noun. an improvised musical accompaniment
7. noun. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

   Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper

8. verb. provide (a shoe) with a new vamp

   "revamp my old boots"

   Synonyms: revamp

9. verb. act seductively with (someone)
10. verb. piece (something old) with a new part

    "vamp up an old speech"

11. verb. make up

    "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting"

Synonyms

coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper, revamp

Common word forms

vamps, vamped, vamper, vamping

Words from these letters

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