Толковый словарь английского языка - vamp

I. noun see: vanguard Date: 14th century the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper, a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses, II. verb Date: 1599 transitive verb 1. to provide (a shoe) with a new ~, to piece (something old) with a new part ; patch , invent, fabricate , intransitive verb to play a musical ~, improvise, extemporize, ~er noun III. noun Etymology: short for ~ire Date: circa 1911 a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men, ~ish adjective IV. verb Date: circa 1915 transitive verb to practice seductive wiles on, intransitive verb to act like a ~