boot camp
/'bu:tkæmp/
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Definition
Noun: 1. A camp for training military recruits: A rigorous, disciplined training facility where new military personnel undergo initial physical and mental conditioning to prepare for service. 2. A rigorous training or initiation program: By extension, any intensive and demanding training program designed to instill discipline, skills, or fitness in a short period, often modeled after military training.
Usage
- The term is most commonly used to refer to the initial training period for new soldiers, marines, sailors, or airmen.
- It is also used metaphorically for other intensive programs (e.g., fitness boot camp, coding boot camp). In this extended sense, it emphasizes the program's demanding, structured, and transformative nature.
Examples
- Noun (Military):
- After enlisting, he was sent directly to boot camp for eight weeks of basic training.
- Boot camp is designed to break down civilians and rebuild them as disciplined soldiers.
- Noun (Extended/Figurative):
- She signed up for a two-week fitness boot camp to get in shape.
- The company runs a sales boot camp for all new employees.
Advanced Usage
- "boot-camp style": Used as an adjective to describe any activity or program that is extremely rigorous and disciplined.
- The personal trainer is known for his boot-camp style workouts.
Variants and Related Words
- Basic Training: A near-synonym specifically for the initial military training period.
- Recruit Training: Another formal term for military boot camp.
Synonyms
- (For the military sense): Basic training, recruit training, induction camp.
- (For the figurative sense): Intensive course, crash course, immersion program, training camp.
Related Idioms
- "It's not boot camp": A phrase used to tell someone to relax or that a situation is not as severe or disciplined as military training.
- Calm down, it's just a team-building exercise—it's not boot camp.
Noun
- camp for training military recruits