Citations:camp

noun

 * 1842: The United Service Magazine, volume 1,857, issue 2, page 209
 * The regatta had commenced, was in fact at its height, everything going off well, when just at a pause after a close race, a boat was seen shooting out from behind the nearest island, and all attention was immediately concentrated on it, for the crew were rigged in the most outlandish costumes, with their faces blackened, whilst the individual who appeared to be their commander, reclined gracefully in the stern, clothed in most gorgeous habiliments and wearing a gigantic cocked hat, one of the college camp colours floating majestically over his head.


 * 1917: The North American Student, volume 6, page 42 (Council of North American Student Movements)
 * “I never felt so homesick, not even when I left my home, as I did when I stepped off the pier at the college camp to leave the grounds. What impressed me most of all was the spirit demonstrated by the members and guests of the conference toward Christianity.”


 * 1927: George S. Hellman, Lanes of Memory, page 111
 * Contrariwise, as Alice would say, the University camp offered on all possible occasions hospitality to the people of Beaune. Our buildings were frequently made available for their inspection, and a special day was set apart for the visit of the school children.


 * 1944: Kenneth Goff, They Would Destroy Our Way of Life, page 32 (self-published)
 * Yet the largest billboard on the college camp ground was featuring a book in defense of the American Youth Congress, entitled “American Youth Today,” which had a foreword written by Mrs. Roosevelt.


 * 1964: Susan Sontag, Notes on "Camp",
 * Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility -- unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it -- that goes by the cult name of "Camp."

verb: to act camp

 * 2013, Simon Napier-Bell, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, Random House (ISBN 9781448177240), page 78:
 * like Andrew Oldham's new image: 'He was all right when he was camping around like a little girl, but Mick Jagger's stolen all his mannerisms and Andrew's had to take up being butch. Well, you know what the newly converted are like!'