fish camp

noun

A restaurant serving fried seafood.

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Meanings

fish camp1

nounfish camp (plural fish camps)

plural fish camps · alternative fishcamp

  1. USregionalA restaurant serving fried seafood.

    The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.

    2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124
  2. A Native American seasonal camp for the purpose of catching fish and smoking them.

Fish Camp2

proper noun
  1. A census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States.
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