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In music, vamping is the repeated use of a phrase through an entire song or the improvisation on top of a repeated phrase through a song. Looping, samples and grooves are all examples of vamping, as is almost all popular music with repeated chord progressions. It is not a negative attribute, but implies building on top of a groove to create a song.
The keyboardist used extensive vamping to create an intricate song based on a funk groove.
vamping by RadiationVibe August 2, 2009
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To stay up all night, like a vampire would because once the sun comes up they turn to dust.
Vamping by smanginlang August 23, 2012
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Are you vamping for time?
Vamping by Jennawae February 4, 2010
To get ready for a night out using heavy make-up for a stunning effect.
She's vamping it up tonight!
Vamping by Ruthms October 31, 2010
When a talented speaker fills dead air time
I need to use the bathroom you can start vamping till I get back
Vamping by SeylessGaming March 22, 2023
A word of the 60's and 70's used for the heavy assault on a person done by the police, usually during a political event or rally.
The vamping at that rally was brutal, they covered all the bases: clubbing, shoving, dragging, gassing, and even buckshot.
vamping by Master of Chaos August 18, 2007
verb
1. A sexual manuever which entails the eating out of a female while she is menstrating

2. A sexual manuever which entails a female slicing a part of the male's penis in order to suck the blood out of the cut during climax
"There's no blood in my cock! That bitch was vamping me hard!"
vamping by Murky Weather August 19, 2007