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camp
noun- ostentation, flamboyant behaviour; extravagance of gesture, style, etc., also, deliberately overt effeminacy used to signal homosexuality US
May be further refined (or otherwise) as HIGH CAMPLOW CAMP - I love camp. I’m as camp as a row of tents. Pop shouldn’t take itself seriously. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 309, 1999
- Detractors dismiss Barlett/Brommfield collaborations as outdated high camp. — John Clum, Still Acting Gay, p. 348, 2000
- a dramatically effeminate homosexual man US, 1923
In Australia not necessarily a flagrantly effeminate homosexual. - Still, when this assistant prop man, crew-cut kid, flit, floppy wrists and pursy lips, what they called rough trade, a real camp, when he’d begun stroking Biff’s elbows and saying how gone he was on him, Biff hadn’t come down with the immediate kyawkyaws. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 202, 1954
- Since culture means camps, I listened in amazement as everyone from the baritone to the bass player was dubbed a queer. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 108, 1967
- It is the camps, the crims, the pros, our friends in the counter culture and other anti-authoritarians, who like our paper. — Wendy Bacon in, Uni Sex, p. 65, 1971
- [Reporting on I’m a Celebrity–Get Me Out of Here TV programme] Apparently, nothing about the camp was real. I don’t know, I thought Wayne Sleep looked quite human. — Ian Lea, Rise, 16 May 2003
- a habitual resting place for wild animals AUSTRALIA
- “We must have sat down on a kangaroo camp when we boiled the billy at midday”, I remarked irritably. Laurie laughed while I burned three kangaroo ticks from my legs. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 82, 1947
- a temporary location to stay at AUSTRALIA
- I set up camp. Found a table to put my typewriter on. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 143, 1994
- a resting or holding place for stock animals AUSTRALIA, 1845
- Affairs often left little part-white boys with their black mothers in the cattle camps on the stations, thinking they could be trained to a useful life as stockmen. — Coralie Rees, Spinifex Walkabout, p. 169, 1953
- a rest AUSTRALIA, 1899
- I thought I’d never get across that street. Better go back to Gordon House and have a camp. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 35, 1994
- jail US
- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 7, 1968
▶ in camp
of a government or military officer, being based away from the regular place of duty INDIA- A senior officer [...], even if staying in a luxury hotel, may describe his location as “in camp“ or “Camp” followed by the name of the place. — Nigel Hankin, Hanklyn-Janklin, 2003
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