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camp as a row of tents adjective- flagrantly homosexual AUSTRALIA
- He’s really put a bomb under that show and Karen reckons he’s world class. Camp as a row of tents as course. — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 91, 1965
- Arr don’ gimme that. Them pansies is camp as a row of tents. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 108, 1967
- (often, but not exclusively, of homosexual men) ostentatious, effeminate, extravagantly styled UK
Elaboration of CAMP - — John Gardner, Madrigal, 1967
- I love camp. I’m as camp as a row of tents. Pop shouldn’t take itself too seriously. — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 309, 1999
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