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Boot camp

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps). Canada, US, colloquial
  2. 2
    camp for training military recruits wordnet
  3. 3
    A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term. Canada, US
  4. 4
    Any short, often intensive course of training. Canada, US, idiomatic

    "We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products."

Etymology

From boot in the US military slang sense of “new recruit” + camp.

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