| camp | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: campy |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
| (noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
| (noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
| (noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
| (noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
| (noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
| (noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
| (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
| (verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
| (verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
| (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
| decamp | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: skip, vamoose |
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| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, bolt, go off, make off, run off |
| (verb) leave a camp | Synonyms: break camp |
| encamp | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, tent |
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| scamp | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag |
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| (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |