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camp·er

   [kam-per]
noun
1.
a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
2.
a person who attends a summer camp or day camp.
3.
Also called pickup camper, truck camper. a trucklike vehicle, van, or trailer that is fitted or suitable for recreational camping, or a pickup truck on which a structure fitted for camping is mounted.
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verb (used without object)
4.
to travel and live in a vehicular camper: We're going to camper for two weeks during our vacation.

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Origin:
1625–35; 1960–65 for def. 3; camp1 + -er1
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camp

2   [kamp]
noun
1.
something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
2.
a person who adopts a teasing, theatrical manner, especially for the amusement of others.
verb (used without object)
3.
Also, camp it up. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.
adjective
4.
campy: camp Hollywood musicals of the 1940s.
Origin:
1905–10; perhaps dial. camp impetuous, uncouth person (see kemp1); hence, slightly objectionable, effeminate, homosexual; in some senses probably special use of camp1 brothel, meeting place of male homosexuals
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camper (ˈkæmpə)
 
—n
1.  a person who lives or temporarily stays in a tent, cabin, etc
2.  a vehicle equipped for camping out

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camp
"tasteless," 1909, homosexual slang, perhaps from mid-17c. Fr. camper "to portray, pose" (as in se camper "put oneself in a bold, provocative pose"); popularized 1964 by Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp." Campy is attested from 1959.
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cAMP abbr.
cyclic AMP

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camp definition


  1. n.
    something cute and out of fashion; something of such an anachronistic style as to be intriguing. : Nobody really knows what style camp really is, and very few even care.
  2. mod.
    and campy. overdone; out of fashion and intriguing. : Most camp entertainment is pretentious and overdrawn.
  3. mod.
    having to do with homosexual persons and matters. : She is so camp, I could scream!
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