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dinner camps

dinner camps is the plural of dinner camp.

Meaning of dinner camp

Noun

dinner camp (plural dinner camps)

  1. (Australia) A midday break for a meal and rest taken by drovers and their livestock.
    • Looking at that brownie cake reminded me of a most unusual happening when we had come back to the mill for dinner camp in the middle of the day.2010, Brian Taylor, A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories
  2. (Australia) The location of the temporary camp created for dinner camp.
    • Even if they had a camp where they meet, and their trapline is divided like this, but if they have a dinner camp here, that's supposed to be in their boundary.2001, Michael D. Blackstock, Faces in the Forest: First Nations Art Created on Living Trees, page 117

Questions about dinner camps

What is dinner camps the plural of?
Dinner camps is the plural of dinner camp.

Words near dinner camps in the dictionary

  1. dinned
  2. dinner
  3. dinner bell
  4. dinner bells
  5. dinner camp
  6. dinner camps
  7. dinner dance
  8. dinner dances
  9. dinner dress
  10. dinner dresses
  11. dinner fork

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