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Noun: camper  kam-pu(r)
  1. Someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation
    "The campers set up their tents by the lake"
     
  2. 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
Adjective: camp (camper,campest)  kamp
Usage: informal
  1. 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]
     
  2. 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

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