Usually means: Deliberate, exaggerated style for effect.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word camp:

General dictionaries General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. Camp, camp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. camp, camp, cAMP: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. camp, camp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. camp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. camp: Vocabulary.com
  6. Camp, camp: Wordnik
  7. camp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CAMP, Camp, camp, cAMP: Wiktionary
  9. camp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. camp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. camp: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cAMP: Dictionary.com
  13. camp (1), camp (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. camp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CAMP (company), CAMP (studio), CAMP, Camp (Childish Gambino album), Camp (Falkland Islands), Camp (TV series), Camp (album), Camp (constituency), Camp (disambiguation), Camp (style), Camp (surname), Camp, The Camp (documentary), The Camp (film), The Camp (play), The Camp, .camp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Camp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. camp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. camp: Rhymezone
  19. Camp (nt), camp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. camp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CAMP, camp, cAMP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. camp: Free Dictionary
  23. camp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Camp, camp: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Camp: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Camp: World Wide Words
  27. camp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. camp: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Camp (disambiguation), camp: Legal dictionary
  2. camp: Financial dictionary

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Camp (disambiguation), Camp (recreation), cAMP: Encyclopedia

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Camp (disambiguation), cAMP: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. baby names list (No longer online)
  4. CAMP: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. camp: Idioms

Religion dictionaries Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Camp: Easton Bible
  2. Camp: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science dictionaries Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. camp: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. CAMP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. CAMP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang dictionaries Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. camp, camp, camp, camp, camp, camp: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. camp: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. camp: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Hiking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See camped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
noun:  An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
noun:  A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
noun:  A concentration camp; gulag.
noun:  A single hut or shelter.
noun:  The company or body of persons encamped.
noun:  A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
noun:  (obsolete) An army.
noun:  (uncommon) Campus
noun:  (informal) A summer camp.
noun:  (prison slang) A prison.
noun:  (agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
noun:  (obsolete) Conflict; battle.
verb:  To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
verb:  To set up a camp.
verb:  (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
verb:  (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
verb:  (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.
noun:  An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
adjective:  Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
adjective:  (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
adjective:  Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
verb:  To behave in a camp manner; camp it up.
noun:  (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
noun:  An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Campbell.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A village on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States.
verb:  (transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp. [(online gaming) To wait by a player's corpse to target them when they respawn, or when, after respawning elsewhere, they return to reclaim their equipment back from their corpse.]
noun:  (medicine) Initialism of cyclic AMP.
noun:  Acronym of Central Atlantic magmatic province.

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outpost for parties,   troop's encampment,   gay manner,   put up a tent,   pitch tent,   put up tents,   sets up tents,   group of tents,   sleep outside,   base for workers,   pitch tents


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