vamp

IPA(Pronunciation)

/væmp/

Verb

transitive intransitive specifically dialectal

(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.

Japanese Meaning

（靴などの）補修する、修理する・改装する / 既存の素材に新たな要素を加え、再構築する（＝vamp upの意味）

What is this buttons?

We decided to vamp the old leather armchair before putting it in the living room.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

リビングに置く前に、古い革張りのアームチェアを修復することにしました。

Details

Sense（1）

(transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.

'Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.' 'Not so,' says the good Heaven; 'plod and plough, vamp your old coats and hats, weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.'

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Sense（2）

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Sense（3）

(transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

Sense（4）

(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”).

"It is so unkind to joke about it," said the beautiful young lady. "What shall I do? If somebody will vamp an accompaniment, I can get on very well without any music. But if I try to play for myself I shall break down."

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