1. a person who repairs or patches up something, especially shoes
Usage: informal
2. a person who improvises or creates something hastily
Usage: informal

Examples

• The old vamper fixed my boots with whatever materials he had on hand.
• She’s quite a vamper when it comes to cooking with leftovers.
• The vamper patched the torn sail with scraps of canvas.
• He was known as a vamper who could repair almost anything.
• The vamper quickly assembled a makeshift solution to the problem.
• Local vampers kept the old equipment running long past its expected life.