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How to pronounce vamp in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms revamp
Type of repair, fix, doctor, restore, furbish up, touch on, bushel, mend


revamp my old boots.
Type Words
Synonyms vamp up
Type of patch, piece


vamp up an old speech.
Type Words
Synonyms vamp up
Type of fabricate, cook up, invent, make up, manufacture


vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting.
Type Words
Synonyms coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper
Type of woman, adult female
Type Words
Type of flirt, mash, butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, romance, philander
Derivation vamper
Type Words
Type of accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment, support
Type Words
Type of piece of leather

Examples of vamp

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From Viking vamp Eric to sassy Merlotte's Bar cook Lafayette, they're all there.
From the cnn.com
Tom Ramirez is a comically hysterical vamp as the drag-bawd, Mistress Overdone.
From the sfgate.com
There are even two scratchy-looking breastplates worn by Theda Bara as a vamp.
From the economist.com
Gothlike metal studs and an elongated vamp take it out of pure prep territory.
From the washingtonpost.com
The second is the saintly looking angel who in private was the vamp of vamps.
From the kansas.com
On the silent screen she had a sultry presence that made her cinema's premier vamp.
From the express.co.uk
Once the vamp section is completed, the music will continue on to the next section.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the end she becomes a vamp herself, because humans are weak and powerless.
From the entertainment.time.com
What she was not, Tyldesley argues, was the villainous vamp portrayed in the movies.
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More examples
  • Coquette: a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
  • Make up; "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting"
  • An improvised musical accompaniment
  • Piece (something old) with a new part; "vamp up an old speech"
  • Piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
  • Act seductively with (someone)
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