camp

camp [kamp]

n.

[Fr < OProv < L campus, a field: see CAMPUS]

1.

a) a place where tents, huts, barracks, or other more or less temporary structures have been put up, as for soldiers in training or in bivouac

b) military life

2.

a) a group of people who support or advance a common opinion, cause, etc.

b) the position taken by such a group

3. a tent, cabin, etc., or a group of these, used for temporary lodging, as by hunters or fishermen

4. a place in the country for vacationers, esp. children, with outdoor recreation, often organized and supervised

5. the people living in a camp

☆ 6. [orig., homosexual jargon] Slang

a) banality, mediocrity, artifice, ostentation, etc. so extreme as to amuse or have a perversely sophisticated appeal

b) exaggerated effeminate mannerisms, usually affected for amusement

adj.

☆ Slang characterized by CAMP (n. 6)

vi.

1. to set up a camp; encamp

2. to live or stay in or as if in a camp: often with out

vt.

1. to put into a camp

2. to provide with accommodations

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break camp

to dismantle a camp; pack up camping equipment and go away

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☆ camp it up

Slang to behave in a camp way