camp

Adjective

• providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
  • they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
    
  • campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's
    

Noun

• a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
  • city kids get to see the country at a summer camp
    

• shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

• something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
  • the living room was pure camp
    

• a penal institution (often for forced labor)
  • China has many camps for political prisoners
    

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
  • level ground is best for parking and camp areas
    

• a group of people living together in a camp
  • the whole camp laughed at his mistake
    

• temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
  • wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
    

Verb

• give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

• establish or set up a camp

• live in or as if in a tent
  • Can we go camping again this summer?
    
  • The circus tented near the town
    
  • The houseguests had to camp in the living room
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  campy , summer camp , refugee camp , clique , coterie , ingroup , inner circle , pack , encampment , cantonment , bivouac , camp down , encamp , camp out , tent