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happy camper
noun
- Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied:
There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
happy camper
noun
- informal.a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper )
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Idioms and Phrases
A satisfied participant, a contented person, as in She loved the challenge of her new job; she was one happy camper . This expression is also often put in the negative, as in She hated the heat and humidity of the southern summer; she was not a happy camper . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]Discover More
Example Sentences
You might get the spine, but the glochid might then stick in your tongue, or in your lip, and then you’re going to have that reaction in your mouth or in your lip and you won’t be a happy camper.
He grew up in Montana and uses folksy phrases like “happy camper” and “total baloney.”
I have crazy energy and I am not hungry, but I am not a happy camper either.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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