camp
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Is camp a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) An army.Examples: "My Campe is like to Iulius Cæſars Hoſte, That neuer fought but had the victorie:"countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (uncommon) Clipping of campusabbreviationalt-ofclippingcountableuncommonuncountable
3. (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.Examples: "Lantana is a sweet camp. It's an old hospital that has been converted to a drug treatment center for prisoners."countableslanguncountable
4. (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).alt-ofcountablemisconstructionuncountable
5. (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.Examples: "Then the Rains came, when no one could go into camp, and the Narkarra Road was washed away by the Kasun River, and in the cup-like pastures of Kashima the cattle waded knee-deep."BritishIndiacountableuncountable
6. (obsolete) Conflict; battle.countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.Examples: "Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together."transitive
2. (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.Examples: "Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point."; "Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket."intransitive
3. (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.Examples: "The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage."; "Go and camp the flag for the win."transitive
4. (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.abbreviationalt-ofellipsistransitive
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.Examples: "1562, Leigh, The Accedens of Armory ː Aristotle affirmeth that Rauens will gather together on sides, and campe and fight for victorie."intransitiveobsolete
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To wrangle; argue.intransitiveobsolete
adj (English)
1. (of a man) Ostentatiously effeminate.Examples: "More recently the word has become colloquial English for either implying that someone is a homosexual (‘he's very camp’), or for describing rather outre behaviour[…]"; "And to be honest, in the illustration Mr Tumnus does look as camp as fuck with his little scarf tied jauntily around his neck. I suppose it isn't outside the realms of possibility that he'd just been off cottaging with some centaurs in the forest. God."
noun (English)
1. (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.countableslanguncountable
noun (English)
1. (medicine) Initialism of cyclic AMP.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary