outcamp
outcamp noun: a camp which is outlying from or secondary to a main camp.
Noun
outcamp (plural outcamps)
- A camp which is outlying from or secondary to a main camp.
- Winter was not far away that late autumn day when I made my first trip of the season by walking across country to my small outcamp on Caribou Lake.1971, A. L. Karras, North to Cree Lake, page 70
- A concentration camp.
- On 17 April 1945, he participated in prisoner transport as guard from outcamp Augsburg to outcamp Muehldorf.1947, United States vs. Andreas MUELLER, Otto Karl MUELLER, Reinhold PATZER, Georg PETERMANN, Wilhelm ROOMER, Ludwig ROTTMAIER, Hermann SCHROEFL, and Franz SCHUSTETTER, page 4
Verb
outcamp (third-person singular simple present outcamps, present participle outcamping, simple past and past participle outcamped)
- To be more campy than.
- He was being outcamped by a couple of absurd superhero parodies which arrived just twelve months after his television debut.1971, Raymond William Stedman, The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment, page 422
Forms of outcamp
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | outcamps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | outcamps |
| present participle | outcamping |
| past participle | outcamped |
| past | outcamped |
Origin of outcamp
From out- + camp.
Questions about outcamp
- What does outcamp mean?
- Outcamp means a camp which is outlying from or secondary to a main camp.
- What part of speech is outcamp?
- Outcamp can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of outcamp?
- The plural of outcamp is outcamps.
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