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Via Old French, ultimately from Latin campus.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular camp |
Plural camps |
camp (plural camps)
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- A group of people with the same ideals or political leanings, strongly supported.
- An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
- (informal) A summer camp.
Adjective
camp (comparative camper, superlative campest)
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Positive camp |
- Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
- (of a gay man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
- Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
Translations
theatrical
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Verb
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Infinitive to camp |
Third person singular camps |
Simple past camped |
Past participle camped |
Present participle camping |
to camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
- (video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or to guard an area.
- The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
- Go and camp the flag for the win.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- Don't camp up your performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night this time.
- (gay slang) To troll for sexual partners.
- Looks like he's going to camp for some hot bois tonight.
- (gay slang) To chat up a guy in the hopes of getting him into bed.
- You should camp that cute guy.
Translations
to live in a tent
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Related terms
- camper
- campness
- campfire
- camp site, campsite
- campground
- campestral
- fat camp
- summer camp
Old English
Etymology
Latin campus
Noun
camp m. or n.
Noun
camp n.
- an enclosed piece of land
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