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temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas" a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners" 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 livingroom was pure camp" a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake" 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" 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" tasteless an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose |
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