outcamp

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noun

A camp which is outlying from or secondary to a main camp.

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Meanings

nounoutcamp (plural outcamps)

plural outcamps

  1. 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
  2. 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
verboutcamp (third-person singular simple present outcamps, present participle outcamping, simple past and past participle outcamped)

present singular third person outcamps · participle present outcamping · participle past outcamped · past outcamped

  1. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From out- + camp.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

outcamp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcamp

MLA

“outcamp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcamp. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outcamp,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outcamp.

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