vamp up

English

Verb

vamp up (third-person singular simple present vamps up, present participle vamping up, simple past and past participle vamped up)

1. To repair; mend.
2. To remake.
3. To make up; invent.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Second one vamped up for the occasion. If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph."