vamp: Word of the day for February 22, 2019

vamp , v :
(transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. (transitive, intransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear). (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. […] (transitive) To seduce or exploit someone.