(kamp) noun
1. A group of tents or other shelters, as for soldiers or hunters, or the place so occupied; also, a single tent, cabin, etc.
2. An army encamped; hence, military life or the field of battle.
3. A chapter or lodge of various fraternal organizations.
4. A new community or town hastily gathered around the mines: so called because the people originally lived in tents.
5. A group of buildings for temporary (usually summer) habitation, built on a lake, or seashore, or in the mountains.
6. A stage of a journey.
7. A place where open–air religious or political meetings are held.
8. A body of persons who support or defend a policy, theory, or doctrine: Avarice dominates the camp of the profiteers.
9. A mass of facts or arguments arrayed in support or defense of a policy, theory, or doctrine.
—v.t.
1. To shelter or station, as troops, in a camp.
—v.i.
2. To form an encampment.
3. To live temporarily in a camp.
4. To hold stubbornly to a position: Strikers camped in front of the factory.
—to camp down To settle down.
—to camp on the trail of To follow closely; dog.
—to camp out To sleep in a tent; live in the open. [<MF <Ital. campo field <L campus level plain]

(kamp) noun
1. A comical style or quality typically perceived in banal, flamboyant, or patently artificial gestures, appearances, literary works, etc., that intentionally or unwittingly seem to parody themselves.
2. A person, thing, aspect, etc., marked by this style or quality.
—adjective Of or characterized by camp, or by a ready appreciation of camp: the camp sensibility; in the camp tradition of Hollywood's gangster films.
—v.i. Slang
1. To behave, dress, etc., in a theatrical or bizarre way to get attention.
—v.t.
2. To invest with a camp quality: to camp the play up with weird effects. [? <dial. E camp or kemp bold, impetuous fellow]