camp

• (s) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
  • they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
  • campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
  campy,

Nouns

• (n) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
  • wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
  bivouac, cantonment, encampment,
• (n) a group of people living together in a camp
  • the whole camp laughed at his mistake
• (n) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
  • level ground is best for parking and camp areas
• (n) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack,
• (n) a penal institution (often for forced labor)
  • China has many camps for political prisoners
• (n) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
  • the living room was pure camp
• (n) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs refugee camp,
• (n) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
  • city kids get to see the country at a summer camp
  summer camp,

Verbs

• (v) live in or as if in a tent
  • Can we go camping again this summer?
  • The circus tented near the town
  • The houseguests had to camp in the living room
  bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent,
• (v) establish or set up a camp camp down,
• (v) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

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