heartbreaker vs vamp

heartbreaker

noun
  • Someone, usually attractive, who flirts with or otherwise enamours a person, but does not reciprocate their love. 

  • A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team. 

  • Something that causes sorrow, grief or extreme disappointment. 

  • An independent role-playing game that attempts to fix various perceived design flaws in an established RPG, but whose few innovations will not reach a wide audience due to its lack of marketability. 

vamp

noun
  • A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her. 

  • An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • A vampire. 

  • A volunteer firefighter. 

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

verb
  • To patch, repair, or refurbish. 

  • To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. 

  • To travel by foot; to walk. 

  • To attach a vamp (to footwear). 

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

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

  • To seduce or exploit someone. 

  • To turn into a vampire. 

  • To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”). 

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