Word Finder - vamp

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The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.

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Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.

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• patch

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Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.

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A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.

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(by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.

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To patch, repair, or refurbish.

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Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.

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To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

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(shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).

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To travel by foot; to walk.

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To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.

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Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!

She'd just turned a vamp back into a human.

He sensed the presence of the vamp before they exited the elevator.

Her brother was a vamp.

Bianca hugged him, and Dusty resisted the urge to pull her away and snap the vamp's neck.

Instead, he sat down across from him, his penetrating gaze on the young vamp.

His blood quickened with bloodlust at the thought of ending the life of another miserable vamp.

The vamp's head exploded with the first shot of his hand cannon, the bullet missing Bianca by a couple inches.

It's the only way for him to become a vamp.

Whatever Natural talent she had, she'd somehow turned her brother from a vamp back into a human.

So, it looks like Talon's goons took our pig and injected it with something to turn it into a vamp.

Bianca healed a newly turned vamp.

We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.

Talon made him into a vamp.

Several times she'd thought Dusty had the upper hand and could've killed the leering vamp, and several times, he'd stopped, once with a glance at his watch.

He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

Go get your vamp, and I'll get my Guardian.

The vamp standing beside Jonny was as big as any of Damian's Guardians, with eyes that glowed red.

The vamp crossed the room to Damian and stood.

The vamp didn't look pleased.

Maybe it was his delirium, but Jule thought the vamp looked larger than even Damian.

The vamp wasn't attacking.

He focused on it, trying to recall why he felt he should recognize the vamp.

None of the vamp's words made sense.

Four of the five vamps he'd chosen as bodyguards were exchanging looks of derision behind his back, and the vamp he tried to interrogate was openly ridiculing him.

This vamp wasn't a loner.

The largest vamp she'd ever seen stepped into the hallway.

The vamp bowed his head and pushed past Jenn.

The vamp barked a laugh and continued down the hall.

Which is probably what your vamp in there is thinking.

His thoughts weren't on the vamp; they were on her.

He sat in the chair in front of the vamp he'd fixated on.

The vamp in front of him chuckled and tossed his head in greeting to his teammates.

Jenn's gaze flew up to the strange vamp, and she followed his gaze.

Jonny glanced around the room, his hesitation giving more than one vamp confidence to draw their weapons openly.

She addressed the vamp in front of Jonny.

Jenn shot the first vamp and stepped in front of the next.

The vamp being interrogated no longer smiled.

The vamp in front of Jonny launched towards her.

Jonny snatched the vamp by its neck and slammed it down to the table.

Jenn sensed the next vamp charge her and spun, burying her knife in the neck of the nearest before she lashed out with a kick at the next.

Her knife found the shoulder of one vamp before a kick slammed her against the wall.

The vamp whose neck he held had a look of horror on its face, and the air around them buzzed with magic.

The light faded from the vamp's eyes, and it slid to the ground.

Her gaze went from him to the vamp on the other side of the room staring her down.

I never met a vamp who tried to keep a Guardian alive.

The massive vamp ignored her, and she saw Jonny stop to speak to him.

The vamp said something about splitting the sky.

Jenn snorted, wondering how she explained there was only one vamp in an entire organization of inhuman blood suckers that gave her the creeps.

Looking over the largest vamp she'd ever seen, she had a feeling a confrontation between them wouldn't end well for her.

His dream, the one about the Original Vamp, hadn't returned.