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vamp

/vamp/US // væmp //UK // (væmp) informal //

踩踏,踩踏事件,踩点,踩踏声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the portion of a shoe or boot upper that covers the instep and toes.
    • : something patched up or pieced together.
    • : Jazz. an accompaniment, usually improvised, consisting of a succession of simple chords.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to furnish with a vamp, especially to repair with a new vamp.
    • : to patch up; repair.
    • : to give a new appearance by adding a patch or piece.
    • : to concoct or invent: He vamped up a few ugly rumors to discredit his enemies.
    • : Jazz. to improvise.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Jazz. to improvise an accompaniment, tune, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Or you are Elizabeth Taylor: an on-screen vamp with the most tempestuously public love-life dramas (with Richard Burton).

  • The relationship between Jason Stackhouse and baby vamp Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll)?

  • Amid the color, there was also room for a little vamp at Zac Posen, Devi Kroell, and Tracy Reese.

  • Chain 1, a double in each double across vamp, narrowing in the middle and at end.

  • We both slipped off into the crowd and as soon as we encountered our first vamp, we both said, loudly, "Bite bite bite bite bite!"

  • The vamp was a girl, tiny, so short I thought she was really young, but she must have been 17 or 18 from her face and the smile.

  • He sat down to vamp an odd accompaniment indifferently, but Marie was not listening for the accompaniment.

  • I think she is,—not a silly vamp, that the girls joke about,—but the real thing!