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Vamp

noun

A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men. Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper.

An improvised musical accompaniment.

Piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe.

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"Vamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... again for an instant. "C'mon with me," he said. "Mildred Macy in the Spawn of Infamy's at the Nonpareil. Milly is some vamp ...

— The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner

... each arm a pudding sleeve; His waistcoat to a cassock grew, And both assumed a sable hue; But, being old, continued just As threadbare, and as full of dust. His talk was now of tithes and dues: He smoked his pipe, and read the news; Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamp'd in the preface and the text; At christenings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wish'd women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrow'd last; Against dissenters would repine, And stood up ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

Words linked to "Vamp" : cook up, upper, vamper, doctor, musical accompaniment, philander, coquette, manufacture, piece, invent, repair, dally, coquet, chat up, bushel, mend, touch on, restore, piece of leather, adult female, mash, fabricate, patch, romance, prickteaser, fix, backup, furbish up, support, woman, butterfly, make up, accompaniment