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- One who performs improv; an improviser.
- A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff).
- (historical) A pad worn by women to make the dress hang properly.
- One who improves his or her performance, one who shows improvement (of individuals or groups).
- Something that, or someone who, improves something.
- someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
- a component that is added to something to improve it
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- an unplanned expedient
- often improvised or impromptu
- for or concerned with one specific purpose
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- For a particular purpose.
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- (rhetoric) Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- (vulgar, slang) Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- (vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.
- (philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- (card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
- (vulgar, slang) Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- (vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (British, colloquial) A supporter (or less commonly, a player) of the Lincoln City Football Club.
- (video games, slang) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- A baby Tasmanian devil.
- (often humorous) A mischievous child.
- (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).
- (figuratively, from sense 3) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
- To add to or unite an object with (something) to lengthen the latter out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.
- (falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.
- one who is playfully mischievous
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- one who is playfully mischievous
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel
- (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
- (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
- (by extension, attributive) Anything done in an improvised or unrestricted way.
- (music) Ellipsis of Latin freestyle, a form of electronic dance music.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (music) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing.
- (skiing, by extension) The skiing style commonly referred to as skating.
- (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
- (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
- a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
- A screwball comedy.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
- (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
- An impish or playful person.
- A fraud or cheat (person who performs a trick or hoax full of falsehoods for the purpose of unlawful gain).
- One who performs tricks (parts of a magician act or entertainingly difficult physical actions).
- (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.
- One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
- someone who plays practical jokes on others
- (computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
- A mischievous scamp.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- (Australia) A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
- A vagrant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- (roleplaying games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
- (intransitive) To cosplay a vampire.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- act seductively with (someone)
- piece (something old) with a new part
- (informal) A vampire.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- (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.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
- 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.
- an improvised musical accompaniment
- piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.
- (theology) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Jewish and Christian scriptures intended them to be interpreted, and to interpret them in that way.
- One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
- (US politics) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Constitution of the United States intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
- A silly or eccentric person.
- (UK) A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.
- (by extension) One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
- A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.
- A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.
- One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
- (chiefly Northern Ireland) A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.
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- One who performs improv; an improviser.
- A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff).
- (historical) A pad worn by women to make the dress hang properly.
- One who improves his or her performance, one who shows improvement (of individuals or groups).
- Something that, or someone who, improves something.
- someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
- a component that is added to something to improve it
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- an unplanned expedient
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (British, colloquial) A supporter (or less commonly, a player) of the Lincoln City Football Club.
- (video games, slang) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”).
- A baby Tasmanian devil.
- (often humorous) A mischievous child.
- (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2).
- (figuratively, from sense 3) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
- To add to or unite an object with (something) to lengthen the latter out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.
- (falconry, veterinary medicine) To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird, or a bird's wing or tail.
- one who is playfully mischievous
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- one who is playfully mischievous
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
- (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel
- (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a bad-tempered person
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- (informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
- A fit of temper or passion.
- (now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (slang) The penis.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (dialectal) Hard; difficult.
- Sick; unwell.
- (informal) Strange; weird; odd.
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- (dialectal) Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
- fasten with a crank
- rotate with a crank
- travel along a zigzag path
- bend into the shape of a crank
- start by cranking
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
- A screwball comedy.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
- (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.
- An impish or playful person.
- A fraud or cheat (person who performs a trick or hoax full of falsehoods for the purpose of unlawful gain).
- One who performs tricks (parts of a magician act or entertainingly difficult physical actions).
- (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.
- One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
- someone who plays practical jokes on others
- One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.
- (theology) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Jewish and Christian scriptures intended them to be interpreted, and to interpret them in that way.
- One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
- (US politics) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Constitution of the United States intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
- A silly or eccentric person.
- (UK) A political hardliner, especially an obstructive one.
- (by extension) One who enjoys heavy metal (rock) music, to which this sort of dance is usually performed.
- A violently deranged, extreme or fanatical person; a nutcase.
- A kind of chin-up or pull-up exercise where the head is kept in line with the bar.
- One who dances by violently shaking the head in time to the music.
- (chiefly Northern Ireland) A person who engages in street violence, especially in support of a political group.
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- (rhetoric) Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- (vulgar, slang) Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- (vulgar, literally) Feces produced by a bull.
- (philosophy) Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- (card games, possibly vulgar) A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
- (vulgar, slang) Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- (vulgar, slang, usual sense) Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
- (swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.
- (by extension, attributive) Anything done in an improvised or unrestricted way.
- (music) Ellipsis of Latin freestyle, a form of electronic dance music.
- (swimming) A swimming event in which the contestants may choose any stroke.
- (music) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while performing.
- (skiing, by extension) The skiing style commonly referred to as skating.
- (skiing) A cross-country skiing event in which the competitors may choose any style of skiing.
- (wrestling) A style of wrestling in which any non-injurious holds are permitted.
- a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
- (intransitive) To cosplay a vampire.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- act seductively with (someone)
- piece (something old) with a new part
- (informal) A vampire.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- (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.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
- 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.
- an improvised musical accompaniment
- piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
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- often improvised or impromptu
- for or concerned with one specific purpose
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- For a particular purpose.
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- (computing) Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
- A mischievous scamp.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- (Australia) A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
- A vagrant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- (roleplaying games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel