camps Definition

to make camp or occupy a camp

to live temporarily in a camp or outdoors —often used with out

to take up one's quarters : lodge

to engage in camp : exhibit the qualities of camp

a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers)

a group of tents, cabins, or huts

a settlement newly sprung up in a lumbering or mining region

something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing

a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture

exaggerated effeminate mannerisms (as of speech or gesture)

a navy or marine corps camp for basic training

a disciplinary facility or program in which young offenders are forced to participate in a rigidly structured routine

a place or undertaking that resembles a military boot camp especially by requiring one to endure intensive training or initiation

a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard —used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners

a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

a penal colony where forced labor is performed

a camp for migratory laborers

a camp for the confinement of reasonably trustworthy prisoners usually employed on government projects

a camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners

a camp for workers: such as

prison camp

a short-term group project in which individuals from one or more religious organizations volunteer their labor