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Plural of vamp

regular plural

The plural of vamp is vamps.

Forms of vamp

Singularvamp /væmp/
Pluralvamps
Countablecountable

Vamps in a sentence

  • Their dark brown shoes had hand-stitched vamps.1976, Chaim Grade, translated by Curt Leviant, The Yeshiva, Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →ISBN, page 164
  • On the mega-rave circuit, a pop hardcore sound gradually emerged, fusing the piano vamps and shrieking divas of 1989-era Italo house with Belgian hardcore's monster-riffs and Shut Up and Dance style breakbeats and rumblin' bass.2012, Simon Reynolds, “’Ardcore, You Know the Score”, in Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Berkeley, Calif....
  • The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps.2020, Veronica Purcell, The Fourth Zaldizko (Seriphyn Knight Chronicles; book 2), Katarr Kanticles Press, page 7. From the entry desirably
  • Even her vamptastic bat-patterned black leather footwear wasn’t enough to cheer her up, though . . . not when the adult vamps were acting more freaked out than ever.2015, Sienna Mercer, Spooktacular!, page 95. From the entry vamptastic

Meaning of vamp

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
  3. noun Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.

Full definition of vamp

Questions about the plural of vamp

What is the plural of vamp?
The plural of vamp is vamps.
Is vamp countable?
Vamp is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vamp (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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