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to be satisfied, also "not a happy camper" is said to someone who looks unhappy.
n motorised caravan in which you can take your entire family for a horrible holiday. Americans call them “R.V.s,” but the average European camper is significantly smaller than the average American one. Also, the average European is, of course, smaller than the average American, as proven by statistics.
a semipermanent field headquarters and center for a given unit usually within that unit's tactical areas responsibility. A unit may operate in or away from its base camp. Base camps usually contain all or part of a given unit's support elements. Pg. 504
to be satisfied, also "not a happy camper" is said to someone who looks unhappy.
Crude shacks or camps on the outermost boundaries of a ranch.
Phrs. See 'camp as a row of pink tents' (above).
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Adj. An effeminate style and mannerism affected mainly by 'gays', however anyone can 'camp it up.' [1930s]
adj effeminate and homosexual. If you have heard of an Englishman (and latterly New Yorker) named Quentin Crisp, he was the very epitome of camp. And even if you haven’t heard of him, he still was. Americans will say “flaming” or “swishy” to mean much the same thing, though interestingly some Americans do use “campy” to describe old-fashioned or preposterous humour.
Gone camping is nursing slang for placed in an oxygen tent.
Camp is a slang expression for homosexual, effeminate or an affectedly theatrical manner.
cast iron pot for cooking on a camp fire
Was for many years the term of choice in the UK for describing the 'characteristic homosexual behaviours' such as assumed effeminacy but was supplanted by the US term 'gay'. Hence the expression to 'camp it up', and the 'hidden' joke in the film title 'Carry on Camping'. The word (and many other underground gay terms) was popularised and brought to general public attention and useage by the late 1950's radio show 'Round the Horne'.
To hurry. ("Come on, guys, break camp!").
Phrs. Very 'camp' (see above), or gay. E.g. "He was a camp as a row of pink tents and wouldn't have been out of place in a Mr Gay UK competition." Cf. 'camp as a row of tents'.
Verb. To overact in an affected manner. E.g."If you want to see people camping it up, walk down Canal Street in the Gay Village in Manchester on a Saturday night." See 'camp'.
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One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
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Pertaining to, or derived from camphor.
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Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.
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Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceae) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.
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The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
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Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.
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To impregnate or treat with camphor.
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One of a series of substances C10H16, resembling camphor, regarded as modified terpenes.
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Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor.
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Lodging in a camp.
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To impregnate or wash with camphor; to camphorate.
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A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and fragrant, and is used in medicine as a diaphoretic, a stimulant, or sedative.
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A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.
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One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.
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A gum resembling ordinary camphor, obtained from a tree (Dryobalanops camphora) growing in Sumatra and Borneo; -- called also Malay camphor, camphor of Borneo, or borneol. See Borneol.
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Alt. of Campestrian
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A salt of camphoric acid.
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An old spelling of Camphor.
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