Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
VAMP
I. noun see: vanguard
Date: 14th century
the part of a shoe upper or boot upper covering especially the forepart of the foot and sometimes also extending forward over the toe or backward to the back seam of the upper, a short introductory musical passage often repeated several times (as in vaudeville) before a solo or between verses,
II. verb
Date: 1599
transitive verb
1. to provide (a shoe) with a new vamp, to piece (something old) with a new part ; patch , invent , fabricate , intransitive verb to play a musical vamp, improvise , extemporize , vamper noun
III. noun
Etymology: short for vampire
Date: circa 1911
a woman who uses her charm or wiles to seduce and exploit men, vampish adjective
IV. verb
Date: circa 1915
transitive verb to practice seductive wiles on, intransitive verb to act like a vamp