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vamps 1 of 2

noun

plural of vamp

as in charmers

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as in coquettes

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vamps

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verb

present tense third-person singular of vamp

as in ribs

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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

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
Idaho law mandates that kids age 14 or younger wear a life jacket on the water, according to the city.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 22 June 2026

Definition of kids

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Every room has its little balcony and looks out over the blue sea to the islands of the sirens from which those ladies sang so sweetly.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Mount Airy storm siren project The community in Mount Airy, Maryland is raising funds for two storm sirens to alert neighbors of imminent weather threats.

— Tara Lynch, CBS News, 31 July 2026

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