n.

1. temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
   encampment, cantonment, bivouac
   
   • wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
2. a group of people living together in a camp
   
   • the whole camp laughed at his mistake
3. temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
   
   • level ground is best for parking and camp areas
4. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose;
   clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack
5. a prison for forced laborers
   
   • China has many work camps for political prisoners
6. something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
   
   • the living room was pure camp
7. shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs;
   refugee camp
8. a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months;
   summer camp
   
   • city kids get to see the country at a summer camp

v.

1. live in or as if in a tent;
   encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent
   
   • Can we go camping again this summer?
   • The circus tented near the town
   • The houseguests had to camp in the living room
2. establish or set up a camp;
   camp down
3. give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

adj.

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