Camp

Near-synonyms: campsite, campground, encampment

There's a big camp in the woods northwest of here. It's popular with hikers and bushcrafters.

I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.

He used to go to summer camp every alternate year.

I met my girlfriend last summer at camp. You wouldn't know her — she lives in Canada.

Near-synonym: encampment

Signs of enemy recon were found near their camp last week.

Near-synonyms: concentration camp, labor camp, reeducation camp, gulag, stalag, prison camp

Some say they'll round us all up into camps, but if they come for us, we'll take some out with us, on our way out.

Mr. Ahn Myong-Chol was a prison guard at Camp 22 in Hoeryong and a driver at the camps. He was there between 1990 and 1994. He is the one who reported that prisoners had been used for human experimentation inside the camps.

a hunter’s camp

The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.

Near-synonyms: faction, ingroup

She's in the camp that speaks as if all vaccines were poisons.

My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:

Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners.

Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep.

We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.

A few hours before sundown we camped at a small playa lake sunk beneath the level of the grass.

Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.

Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

Go and camp the flag for the win.

1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ː Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie.

Near-synonyms: campness, campiness

We walk a fine line, just this side of camp. Careful calculations are made. We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.

Why would any Hollywood studio encourage a film's transformation into camp, in effect joining in the mockery of its own product? MGM declined to comment.

More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]

And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God.

In Saturday Night Live, Madonna also unsurprisingly played Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and a Joan Collins clone, all in a very camp way. As John Dean writes: “U.S. rock has a ruling camp queen with Madonna.”

Here is Eurovision from a time before anyone watched it for camp value – you can’t imagine any gay bar in 1974 clearing its schedules to screen this; a Eurovision that takes itself rather seriously, a brief appearance by the Wombles notwithstanding.

Oster and his two co-stars, Jamie MacKenzie and Bill Martel, boogie and bop, sway and swish, camp and croon through tightly worked production numbers addressing a range of serious (and not so serious) issues that middle class, urban gay men come up against.