vamp

1. To patch, repair, or refurbish. (transitive)
2. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. (transitive)
3. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. (transitive)
4. To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). (transitive)
5. To attach a vamp (to footwear). (transitive)
6. To delay or stall for time, as for an audience. (intransitive) · Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!· She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.

He/she/it vamps · Past vamped · Past participle vamped · -ing form vamping