Noun: camper kam-pu(r)
Usage: informal
- Someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation
"The campers set up their tents by the lake"
- A recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while travelling
"The surfers converted an old van into a cosy camper van for their beach adventures";
- camping bus, motorhome, camper van
Usage: informal
- Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered, banal or sentimental qualities
"they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect";
- campy [informal]
- Weal or having unsuitable feminine qualities
"The actor's camp portrayal of the character was criticized as stereotypical";
- effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy [Brit, informal], sissified [informal], sissyish [informal], sissy [informal], campy [informal]
Derived forms: campers
See also: poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], tasteless, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly
Type of: grockle [UK, informal], holidaymaker [Brit, Cdn], R.V., recreational vehicle, RV, vacationer [N. Amer], vacationist [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Camper, Frank
Camp, Pune