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Is vamp a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vamp is a Scrabble US word. The word vamp is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is vamp a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vamp is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Yes. The word vamp is a Words With Friends word. The word vamp is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

VAMP,

3-letter words (4 found)

AMP,MAP,PAM,PAV,

2-letter words (3 found)

AM,MA,PA,

You can make 8 words from vamp according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vamp

vamp avmp vmap mvap amvp mavp vapm avpm vpam pvam apvm pavm vmpa mvpa vpma pvma mpva pmva ampv mapv apmv pamv mpav pmav

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word vamp. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in vamp.

Definitions and meaning of vamp

vamp

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /væmp/
  • Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From Middle English vaumpe, vaum-pei, vampe (“covering for the foot, perhaps a slipper or understocking; upper of a boot or shoe”), or from Anglo-Norman vampe, *vaumpé (“part of a stocking covering the top of the foot”), from Old French avantpied, avantpiet, variants of avantpié, from avant (“in front”) + pié (“foot”).

Noun senses 2 and 3 (“a patch; something patched up or improvised”) appear to have been extended from sense 1 (“top part of a boot or shoe”). Sense 4 (“repeated and often improvised musical accompaniment”) was probably derived from sense 3, and sense 5 (“activity to fill or stall for time”) from sense 4.

The verb senses were derived from the noun. Compare also Middle English vaum-peien (“(uncertain) to repair (footwear) with a new upper or vamp; to fabricate an upper or vamp”).

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

  1. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking. [from c. 1225]
  3. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
    Synonym: patch
  4. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
  5. (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist. [from c. 1789]
  6. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
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Verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

  2. (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
  3. (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
  4. (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
    1. (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”).
  5. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
  6. (transitive, intransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
  7. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
  8. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To pawn.
Derived terms
  • newvamp, revamp
  • vamp up
  • vamper
References
  • (pawn): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 2

Clipping of vampire. From a character type developed first for silent film, notably for Theda Bara's role in the 1915 film A Fool There Was.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

  2. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale. [from c. 1915]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vamp
  3. (informal) A vampire.
Derived terms
  • baby vamp
  • vampish
Translations

Verb

vamp (third-person singular simple present vamps, present participle vamping, simple past and past participle vamped)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
  2. (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
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Etymology 3

Uncertain; possibly related to vamp (etymology 1, above): see the 2008 quotation.

Noun

vamp (plural vamps)

  1. (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
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References

Further reading

  • vamp (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English vamp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɑ̃p/

Noun

vamp f (plural vamps)

  1. vamp; femme fatale

Derived terms

  • vamper

Further reading

  • “vamp”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English vamp.

Noun

vamp f (invariable)

  1. vamp (flirtatious woman)

Spanish

Noun

vamp m or f by sense (plural vamps)

  1. vamp

Source: wiktionary.org