camp

camp1 [ kæmp ] noun ***

1. ) count or uncount a place with tents or other shelters where people go for a vacation:

The kids were sent away to camp every summer.

She's spending two weeks at a music camp.

a ) a collection of tents or TRAILERS (=small houses on wheels) that people use when they are traveling:

Their camp was just below the summit.

b ) a place with tents or other shelters for people such as soldiers or prisoners to live in:

refugee/internment/detention camp: After the war, millions of people ended up in refugee camps.

2. ) count a group of people within a larger group who have the same ideas or support the same person:

People in the Brown camp (=who support Brown) deny this rumor.

3. ) uncount a style of art or entertainment that deliberately does not follow traditional ideas about what is considered good in order to produce a humorous effect:

This movie is pure camp.

have a foot in each camp/in both camps

to support or belong to two different groups

set up/pitch camp

1. ) to put tents somewhere and stay there for a while

2. ) to stay outside somewhere and refuse to leave:

Reporters had pitched camp outside his house.

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camp 2 [ kæmp ] verb intransitive *

1. ) to stay somewhere for a short time in a tent or other temporary shelter:

They camped for two nights in the forest.

2. ) camp or camp out to stay outside a place until you get what you want:

Journalists had camped in front of the house.

,camp `out phrasal verb intransitive

1. ) to sleep outside, with or without a tent or other shelter:

He planned to camp out in the wild.

2. ) to stay in a place without the furniture and equipment that you would normally have

3. ) same as CAMP 2 2:

They camped out on the sidewalk all night.

,camp `up phrasal verb

camp it up INFORMAL

to behave in a way that is deliberately artificial, especially in order to make people laugh at traditional ideas about how men and women should behave

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camp 3 [ kæmp ] adjective

1. ) art or entertainment that is camp deliberately does not follow traditional ideas about what is considered good in order to produce a humorous effect

2. ) a man who is camp behaves in a way that does not follow traditional ideas about male behavior, especially in order to attract attention