English Dictionary

vamp

/væmp/

verb

(transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish. / (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.

I need to vamp up this old jacket before I wear it.

意味（1）

(transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.

'Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven; 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.'

意味（2）

(transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.

He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).

It is so unkind to joke about it, said the beautiful young lady. What shall I do? If somebody will vamp an accompaniment, I can get on very well without any music. But if I try to play for myself I shall break down.

意味（5）

(transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).

The shoe is now ready to be vamped after the eyelets are put in.

意味（6）

(transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.

Well, vamp on to Marlott, will 'ee, and order that carriage, and maybe I'll drive round and inspect the club.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.

Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!