camp
kamp
- n temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling - n a group of people living together in a camp
the whole camp laughed at his mistake - n temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
level ground is best for parking and camp areas - n an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- n a penal institution (often for forced labor)
China has many camps for political prisoners - n something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
the living room was pure camp - n shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- n a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
city kids get to see the country at a summer camp - v live in or as if in a tent
Can we go camping again this summer?
The houseguests had to camp in the living room - v establish or set up a camp
- v give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- s providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
- When President Hoover bought 168 acres of land atop the Blue Ridge for $5 per acre, leased 2,000 acres more along the Rapidan and moved out to his camp for weekends, members of .
- I never went away to camp, even though--or maybe because--my father became president of the American Camping Association (ACA) when I was a kid.
- French police on Tuesday cleared out a squalid, sprawling forest camp known as the.