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vamp

  • n  a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
  • n  an improvised musical accompaniment
  • n  piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
  • v  make up
    vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting
  • v  piece (something old) with a new part
    vamp up an old speech
  • v  act seductively with (someone)
  • v  provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
    revamp my old boots

  • On the way to her destiny she's imprisoned by a glamorous vamp (Nicole Kidman), befriended by a talking polar bear (the talking is done by Ian McKellen) and accompanied by her own .
  • When the bar gets its first vamp visitor, 173-year-old Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), she takes a shine to him, not just for his smoky looks or his undead-Confederate-soldier .
  • Then they go to Paris and vamp around at the couture.
News & Articles

  • Cookbook: 'True Blood Drinks & Bites'
    This HBO-sanctioned 'True Blood' cookbook is tailor-made for vampire-watching parties, with a full lineup of recipes for Vamp Repellent, Glamourade and more.
    June 12, 2013 - Inside Bay Area
  • 'Vampire Diaries' EP Talks Klaroline: 'It Is Definitely Not the End of Their Journey'
    (The CW) 'Vampire Diaries' executive producer Julie Plec (Photo Credit:Waytao Shing) Forget Delena and Stelena — the Vampire Diaries couple that really had fans talking this season was Klaus and Caroline, better known to shippers round the web as Klaroline. TVD executive producer Julie Plec dished on the long-simmering romantic tension between the centuries old Original and the bubbly ...
    June 10, 2013 - Zimbio
Quotes

  • Eva Mendes in AZ Central.com
    Diane and I talked about bringing some fun to Crystal,says Mendes. "We didn't want to vamp her out and make her this evil woman with an arched eyebrow. We wanted the audience to realize that she was actually just very desperate."
  • Kevin Max in BREATHEcast.com
    The process was interesting, more like a band than any other effort I have done, to date,says Max. "We cut the songs, playing together, and sometimes found ourselves jamming into 10 minute long vamp sections."
  • Kim Cattrall in Chicago Sun-Times
    Cattrall says that playing Sam "helped me get through my '40s. I was 41 when I was cast as Samantha. I questioned how I could at age 41 play a woman that sexual. Could I make the vamp real? Sam evolved and got deeper and richer. One of the great...

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