Word Finder - vamps

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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!

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A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.

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A vampire.

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To seduce or exploit someone.

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A volunteer firefighter.

He's the head of the vamps.

They waited for Xander to return with the three vamps trailing him.

The kid was hard to read, and she guessed his anger had more to do with his struggle to understand his new role than the vamps who clearly had no respect for him.

She drew the gun at the small of her back and aimed it at the head of one of the vamps.

One of the other vamps drew a weapon.

To her surprise, Xander stepped between her and the two pissed-off vamps waiting for her.

Xander motioned the two vamps away.

Xander drew his weapons and crossed to the two vamps, chopping them down.

She'd met enough Guardians and vamps to know how unique each was, but she'd never met a creature like this one.

Two more vamps assigned as Jonny's guards stood on either side of the door to his personal chambers.

Itching to relieve some of her own nervous energy after the run-in with the vamps, she'd reached the door when Jonny spoke again.

My own vamps won't do that.

The number of female vamps outnumbered the number of female Guardians, and she ducked into the locker room for the females.

Vamps weren't known for their smarts.

Jenn trotted through the halls, hopping over dead vamps as she went.

None of the vamps she'd seen yet were alive.

The lights were on in here, and Jonny's form lay in the center of about a hundred dead vamps.

His gaze took in the dead vamps.

Somewhere safe above ground, with vamps who are loyal?

She snapped into motion, but he deflected her next strike as easily as he had those of the vamps he killed.

Vamps growled as she passed them but made no move to impede her.

Vamps moved out of his way as he strode through the halls, and several bowed their heads as he passed.

She knew what vamps were and what they did; it was why she hated them.

Jule trailed, forcing himself to ignore the tingle of vamps that made him itch to reach for his weapons.

Being surrounded by vamps all day and night made her crazy with the need to kill a few.

Jonny had begun disappearing in the evenings with most of the vamps, and she knew he was out hunting humans.

She waited until the vamps were gone before going to the gym, not wanting to tempt any of them to attack her while she was half-naked and distracted.

Something was really wrong in Europe, and he needed to figure out what, before the European front was overrun by vamps.

You mean, like an influx of vamps to Tucson?

To get ahead of the vamps … Rainy shook his head.

He sliced through two vamps before shooting the other two in the small courtyard.

Jake shot off a burst of rounds as several vamps raced across the courtyard, their red eyes glowing and growls loud.

He ducked into a doorway while Damian shot two more vamps and reappeared, the blueprints on the screen.

Jilian and a few other vamps were down the hall and turned as the stone wall caved.

Jilian met Damian's sword with his own, barking orders to his vamps.

The vamps we've captured for interrogation have a new technique.

Who else can you tell about your husband beheading five vamps?

The men spoke among themselves, swapping war stories and discussing the Tucson Sector's influx of vamps.

Dead vamps lined the driveway.

At least one of Damian's Guardians lay slain among the scores of vamps.

Sofia swallowed hard at the sight of so many vamps milling around.

The other vamps didn't so much as acknowledge her as she stepped from the car.

Her apprehension grew as the vamp led her down a maze of hallways through scores of other vamps and past multiple doorways.

His vamps scampered out of the command center to obey.

Two lifted her and carried her into a hallway teeming with vamps.

He emerged into a busier hall and waited for her, taking her arm and leading her through the vamps.

The vamps are heading this way.

She twisted her head to see the jumbled outlines of the small army of vamps running toward them from the direction of the burning mountain.

He'd taken a few different vamps to his bed the past few days.

The vamps followed her only to the door.