- camp, campy - 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"
Antonyms: tasteful, in good taste (indirect, via tasteless)
- camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
--1 is a kind of military quarters
--1 has particulars: boot camp; hutment; laager, lagerDerived form: verb camp1 - camp - a group of people living together in a camp; "the whole camp laughed at his mistake"
--2 is a kind of gathering, assemblage
--2 has particulars: hobo camp, jungle- camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
--3 is a kind of housing, lodging, living accommodations
--3 has particulars: tennis camp; trailer camp, trailer parkDerived form: verb camp1 - clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp - an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
--4 is a kind of set, circle, band, lot
--4 has particulars:Bloomsbury Group; kitchen cabinet; loop; cabal, faction, junto, camarilla; military junta, junta; mafia, maffia; faction, sect; galere, rogue's gallery; hard core - camp - a prison for forced laborers; "China has many work camps for political prisoners"
--5 is a kind of prison, prison house
--5 has particulars:prison camp, internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW camp; work camp, prison camp, prison farm - camp - something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
--6 is a kind of triteness, staleness
Derived form: verb camp3 - camp, refugee camp - shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
--7 is a kind of shelter
- camp, summer camp - 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"
--8 is a kind of site, land site
--8 has particulars: day camp - camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas"
- camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent - 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"
--1 is one way to dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun camp3, noun camp1, noun camper1, noun camping1
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Somebody ----s PP
- camp, camp down - establish or set up a camp
--2 is one way to pitch, set up
Sample sentence:
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- camp - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun camp6
Somebody ----s something