英语词汇“vamp”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

vamp¹

(vămp)

1. The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.

a. Something patched up or refurbished.

b. Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.

3. Music One or more bars of music repeated indefinitely as an accompaniment.

v. vamped, vamp·ing, vamps

v.tr.

1. To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp.

2. To patch up (something old); refurbish.

3. To put together; fabricate or improvise: With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor.

4. Music

a. To play (a vamp).

b. To improvise (a melody) over a vamp.

v.intr.
Music

1. To play a vamp.

2. To improvise over a vamp.

[Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see VANGUARD + pie, foot (from Latin pēs; see ped- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]

vamper n.

单词	vamp
释义	vamp¹ (vămp) n. 1. The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe. 2. a. Something patched up or refurbished. b. Something rehashed, as a book based on old material. 3. Music One or more bars of music repeated indefinitely as an accompaniment. v. vamped, vamp·ing, vamps v.tr. 1. To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp. 2. To patch up (something old); refurbish. 3. To put together; fabricate or improvise: With no hard news available about the summit meeting, the reporters vamped up questions based only on rumor. 4. Music a. To play (a vamp). b. To improvise (a melody) over a vamp. v.intr. Music 1. To play a vamp. 2. To improvise over a vamp. [Middle English vampe, sock, from Old French avanpie : avaunt, before; see VANGUARD + pie, foot (from Latin pēs; see ped- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] vamper n.
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