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Definitions for Camper

[1] a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
[2] a person who attends a summer camp or day camp.
[3] Also called pickup camper, truck camper. a trucklike vehicle, van, or trailer that is fitted or suitable for recreational camping, or a pickup truck on which a structure fitted for camping is mounted.
[4] to travel and live in a vehicular camper: We're going to camper for two weeks during our vacation.
[5] something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
[6] a person who adopts a teasing, theatrical manner, especially for the amusement of others.
[7] Also camp it up. to speak or behave in a coquettishly playful or extravagantly theatrical manner.
[8] campy: camp Hollywood musicals of the 1940s.
[9] a person who lives or temporarily stays in a tent, cabin, etc
[10] a vehicle equipped for camping out
[11] Walter (Chauncey ). 1859–1925, US sportsman and administrator; he introduced new rules to American football, which distinguished it from rugby.
[12] a place where tents, cabins, or other temporary structures are erected for the use of military troops, for training soldiers, etc
[13] the military life
[14] tents, cabins, etc, used as temporary lodgings by a group of travellers, holiday-makers, Scouts, etc
[15] the group of people living in such lodgings
[16] Southern African a field or paddock fenced off as pasture
[17] a group supporting a given doctrine or theory the socialist camp
[18] Australian a place where sheep or cattle gather to rest
[19] (modifier) suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up a camp bed ; a camp chair
[20] (intr often foll by down ) to establish or set up a camp
[21] (intr often foll by out ) to live temporarily in or as if in a tent
[22] (tr) to put in a camp
[23] effeminate; affected in mannerisms, dress, etc
[24] homosexual
[25] consciously artificial, exaggerated, vulgar, or mannered; self-parodying, esp when in dubious taste
[26] (tr) to perform or invest with a camp quality
[27] camp it up to seek to focus attention on oneself by making an ostentatious display, overacting, etc to flaunt one's homosexuality
[28] a camp quality, style, etc

Words related to Camper

Winnebago, RV

Words nearby Camper

campbellism, campbellite, campbeltown, campcraft, campeche, camper, camper truck, camper van, campernelle jonquil, campership, campese

Origin of Camper

21905–10; perhaps dial. camp impetuous, uncouth person (see kemp1); hence, slightly objectionable, effeminate, homosexual; in some senses probably special use of camp1 brothel, meeting place of male homosexuals

Word origin for Camper

C20: of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Camper

RV, Winnebago, recreational vehicle, tin can