Definition of "vamp" []

• 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 An improvised accompaniment. (noun)
• To provide (a shoe) with a new vamp. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The power-hungry vamp is on a quest to get back the now-missing moonstone that her werewolf lover Mason Lockwood (Taylor Kinney) had obtained for her."
• "Like even the ugliest vamp is better looking than most humans."
• "If you're interested in vamp fiction, you may want to enter too."