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How to pronounce “vamp”

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Pronunciation guide for vamp

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of vamp with real speech in context.
Available examples: 7 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Tales of a Road Dog: The Lowdown Along the Blues Highwaythe music slows down to a vamp.
Definition summary: 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. [from c. 1225]

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Tales of a Road Dog: The Lowdown Along the Blues Highway

the music slows down to a vamp.

[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. [from c. 1225]
Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
(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. [from c. 1789]
(by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
[Verb]
(transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
(transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
(transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
(transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
(ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
(transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To pawn.