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camp
verb- to exhibit humorously exaggerated, dramatic, effeminate mannerisms (usually but not exclusively of a homosexual male) US, 1925
Variants are “camp around,” “camp about” and “camp it up.” - Ooever seen such camping about and going ahead? — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 26, 1962
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 262, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- She can neither act, nor even camp the role. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 147, 1964
- So then years later they meet a fresh bloke like me who’s not afraid to camp a bit. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 80, 1965
- Goldie can camp it up with the best of the gays[.] — Roger Gordon, Hollywood’s Sexual Underground, p. 18, 1966
- When Miss Marlowe camps, Honey, she camps!!! — Kenneth Marlowe, The Gay World of Kenneth Marlowe, p. 42, 1966
- They screamed and camped when they got on it. — Phil Andros, Stud, p. 39, 1966
- That’s exactly what I’m talking about, Emory. No camping! — Mart Crowley, Boys in the Band, p. 51, 1968
- They were camping it up like a couple of kids. — Jamie Mandelkau, Buttons, p. 90, 1971
- to stay at a place temporarily; to have a short rest AUSTRALIA, 1848
Originally (1840s) meaning “to stop travelling or working and set up a quick camp for making refreshments.” - “Anyhow,” she said in a pondering, wary fashion, “are you camping here to-night?” — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 25, 1954
- — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 101, 1956
- The theatre will be empty. I can camp in the back row. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 36, 1969
- In the end I shrugged. There was a patch of carpet beneath my feet. I’d camp there. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 163, 1994
- to sit on a man’s face during heterosexual love-making UK, 2001
A rare non-gay usage, from the conventional sense “to take up temporary residence.” - (of wild animals) to rest or sleep AUSTRALIA, 1861
- These birds seem to camp at midday, for when travelling we saw comparatively few. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 75, 1947
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