Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To advance; to travel.
- 2noun
The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
- 3noun
Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp. t.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5noun
piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- 6noun
an improvised musical accompaniment
- 7noun
a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- 8verb
provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
"revamp my old boots"
Synonyms
- 9verb
act seductively with (someone)
- 10verb
piece (something old) with a new part
"vamp up an old speech"
- 11verb
make up
"vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting"
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