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vamps 1 of 2

noun

plural of vamp
1
as in charmers

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as in coquettes

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vamps

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of vamp
as in ribs

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  1. charmers
  2. flirts
  3. kids
  4. sirens
  5. teases
  6. seductresses
Noun
  • Why so many charmers, devious or otherwise?
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The filmmaker’s passion for foolhardy underdogs and train-wreck charmers electrifies this tale of a postwar striver (an unbelievable Timothée Chalamet) trying to make his name in table tennis.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
Definition of charmers
Noun
  • The hole’s narrow fairway flirts with disaster on both sides – water and super high rough.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026
  • One flirts and drinks and dallies and dances; the other is part child, part monk, his mantel packed with icons and crucifixes, his inner landscape a kind of mental Sagrada Família — a weird and extraordinary edifice constructed around the rigors and promises of Christianity.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Definition of flirts
Verb
  • What everyday skills should kids practice before the first week of school?
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Running under the surface of the film is the anxiety that kids his age are lucky to secure any job, even one as low-paying and exploitative as Erika’s studio assistant.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Definition of kids
Noun
  • Wednesday is no different, with crude prices marching back towards triple digits and inflation sirens ringing from Beijing to London to Washington.
    — Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Over the decades, La Perla became the uniform of screen sirens.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of sirens
Verb
  • That’s namely all the interlude chapters — police reports, 911 calls, courtroom transcripts, newspaper clippings, and scientific research into the telekinetic gene that collectively teases a larger world.
    — Entertainment Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The film teases a more intimate connection between the pair throughout but frustratingly walks back from advancing this development as anything more than a tantalizing possibility.
    — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of teases
Noun
  • Once again, a defense lawyer attempted to paint the women as lying, scheming seductresses.
    — S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Definition of seductresses
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