informal said of a woman: to practise seductive wiles on (a man); to entice (him) verb intransinformal to act as a vamp
the part of a shoe or boot covering the front of the foota simple improvised musical accompanimentsomething patched up to look newa reworking of an old story, sermon, etc [Middle English vampe sock, from Old French avantpié, from avant- fore- + pié foot, from Latin ped-, pes]
to provide (a shoe) with a new vampinformal (+ up) to rework (something old, e.g. a story or sermon) with new material or in a new wayto play an improvised musical accompaniment to (a tune) verb intransto play a musical vampvamper noun