boot-camp

boot camp

noun U.S. Navy, Marines.
a camp for training recruits.

Origin:
1940–45, Americanism

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boot camp
 
n
1.  slang (US) a basic training camp for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps
2.  a centre for juvenile offenders, with a strict disciplinary regime, hard physical exercise, and community labour programmes

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Boot-camp is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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boot camp
1944, U.S. Marines slang, said to be from boot as slang for "recruit," which supposedly dates from the Spanish-American War and is a synecdoche from boots, leggings worn by U.S. sailors.
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