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nounan exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
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verbestablish or set up a camp
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nouna site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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nounshelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
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nountemporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
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verblive in or as if in a tent
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adjectiveproviding sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
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nouna group of people living together in a camptype of:
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nouna penal institution (often for forced labor)type of:
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verbgive an artificially banal or sexual quality to
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nounsomething that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
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nountemporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationerstype of:
Examples of camp
- "city kids get to see the country at a summer camp"
- "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
- "Can we go camping again this summer?"
- "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"
- "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"
- "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
- "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
- "China has many camps for political prisoners"
- "the living room was pure camp"
- "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"