vamp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A woman who aggressively seduces men, sometimes to exploit or manipulate them.
• intransitive verb To seduce or exploit (someone) in the manner of a vamp.
• intransitive verb To behave like a vamp.
• noun The upper part of a boot or shoe covering the instep and sometimes extending over the toe.
• noun Something patched up or refurbished.
• noun Something rehashed, as a book based on old material.
• noun Music One or more bars of music repeated indefinitely as an accompaniment.
• intransitive verb To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp.
• intransitive verb To patch up (something old); refurbish.
• intransitive verb To put together; fabricate or improvise.
• intransitive verb To play (a vamp).
• intransitive verb To improvise (a melody) over a vamp.
• intransitive verb To play a vamp.
• intransitive verb To improvise over a vamp.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To furnish with a new vamp or upper leather, as a shoe or boot.
• To repair; furbish up; give an appearance of newness to.
• In music, to improvise an accompaniment to.
• To improvise musical accompaniments.
• To travel; proceed; move forward.
• noun That part of the upper leather of a boot or shoe which is in front of the seam at the ankle. See cut under boot.
• noun Any piece or patch intended to give an old thing a new appearance; a piece added for appearance' sake. See the verb.
• noun A protection formerly worn for the ankle and leg, and perhaps for the foot also. It seems to have been in most cases a sort of gaiter or spatterdash.
• noun In music, an improvised accompaniment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To advance; to travel.
• noun A woman who seduces men with her charm and wiles, in order to exploit them.
• verb To seduce (a man) sexually for purpose of exploitation.
• transitive verb To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
• transitive verb To create with little skill; to concoct; to invent; -- usually with up.
• noun The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
• noun Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
• noun (Music) A usually improvized Jazz accompaniment, consisting of simple chords in sucession.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Something added to give an old thing a new appearance; a patch.
• noun Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
• noun An activity or speech intended to fill time or stall.
• noun A volunteer fire fighter.
• verb shoemaking To attach a vamp.
• verb To walk.
• verb To patch, repair, or refurbish.
• verb to put together, improvise, or fabricate.
• verb music To perform a vamp; to perform a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, e.g. under dialogue or awaiting the readiness of a soloist.
• verb To stall or delay, as for an audience.
• verb transitive To seduce or exploit someone.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an improvised musical accompaniment
• verb act seductively with (someone)
• verb make up
• verb provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
• verb piece (something old) with a new part
• noun piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe