Meaning

• 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.

• Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.

• Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.

• 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.

• (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.

Meaning

• To patch, repair, or refurbish.

• Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.

• To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.

• (shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).

• To travel by foot; to walk.

• To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.

  "Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!"