vamp
noun · verbA1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- 2.
Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
Đồng nghĩa: patch
- 3.
Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- 4.
(music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- 5.
(broadly)(by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- 6.
A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
Đồng nghĩa: femme fatale
- 7.
(informal)A vampire.
- 8.
(US, slang)A volunteer firefighter.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To patch, repair, or refurbish.
Đồng nghĩa: revamp, vamp up
- 2.
(transitive)Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- 3.
(transitive)To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- 4.
(transitive)(transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- 5.
(ambitransitive, dialectal)(ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- 6.
(intransitive)To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!
She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.
- 7.
(UK, obsolete, slang, transitive)To pawn.
- 8.
(intransitive, transitive)To seduce or exploit someone.
- 9.
(slang, transitive)(fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- 10.
(intransitive)To cosplay a vampire.
I'm planning to vamp real hard at Friday night's party.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe, or from vampe, *vaumpé (part of a stocking covering the top of the foot), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (in front) + pié (foot).