See Also: VAMP(medicine)
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vamp verb1. [vamp] L16.
[from VAMP noun1.]
I.
verb trans. Provide or fit with a (new) vamp; mend or repair (as) with patches; refurbish, renovate, restore. Freq. foll. by up. L16.
Disraeli Old furniture..re-burnished and vamped up.
verb trans. Make or produce (as) by patching; compile, put together, (a book, composition, etc.) out of old materials; serve up (something old) as new by addition or alteration. Freq. foll. by up. Also (foll. by up), fabricate. M17.
G. A. Sala I have vamped up my description of the function from accounts which I have read.
b. Presumptuously represent (a person) as or as something. M17-L18.
verb trans. Music. Improvise (an accompaniment, tune, etc.). L18.
b. verb intrans. Improvise an accompaniment. Also more widely, extemporize, ad lib. L19.
II.
a. verb intrans. Make one's way on foot; tramp, trudge. Now dial. M17.
b. verb trans. Tramp (the streets). rare. L19.