camp2Pronunciation: /kamp/ informalTranslate camp | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of camp adjective (of a man or his manner) ostentatiously and extravagantly effeminate:a heavily made-up and highly camp actor deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style:the movie seems more camp than shocking or gruesome noun [mass noun] deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behaviour or style:Hollywood camp verb [no object] (of a man) behave in an ostentatiously effeminate way:he camped it up a bit for the camerasDerivatives campery noun campness noun Origin: early 20th century: of unknown origincamp in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of camp in the US English dictionary
