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Camper   Listen
noun
Camper  n.  
1.
One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp, especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation.
2.
A person who stays at a summer camp or day camp.
3.
A vehicle, such as a small truck, or a pickup truck with a hood over the back, equipped for convenience while camping out.
happy camper a person who is pleased with the situation in which s/he finds him/herself. Often used ironically or in understatement, especially in the negative; as, the passengers left behind on the island were not a bunch of happy campers.





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"Camper" Quotes from Famous Books



... absolutely free, alone, with nothing behind to remember, with wild, thrilling, nameless life before him. Just then the long mourn of a timber wolf wailed in with the wind. Seldom had he heard the cry of one of those night wanderers. There was nothing like it—no sound like it to fix in the lone camper's heart the ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... orderly. There was a rough bunk in one corner, which was made into a neat bed, and beneath this were arranged in pairs the man's extra shoes, one pair bleached by lime and another newer pair of modern cut for dress use. In one corner was a small camper's stove with a piece of drain-pipe for chimney; a board table, one or two boxes, and some automobile oil cans made up the furniture of the room. There was also a little lime-spotted canvas trunk that probably contained the mason's better clothes and his extra ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick
... superficial fascia are well described by Camper in the following sentence: "Musculus obliquus igitur externus abdominis, qua parte carneus est, membrana quadam propria, quali omnes musculi, tegitur, quae sensim in aponeurosin mutata, ac cum tendineis hujus musculi partibus unita, externe ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... always injured by penetration of the abdominal wall, but may be wounded by penetration through the anus or vagina, or even by an instrument entering the buttocks and passing through the smaller sacrosciatic notch. Camper records the case of a sailor who fell from a mast and struck upon some fragments of wood, one of which entered the anus and penetrated the bladder, the result being a rectovesical fistula. About a year later the man consulted ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... The camper looked up with a start, and then smiled. "Yes, I twisted my right ankle yesterday by falling down a gully, and ouch—don't make me move 'cause it hurts like sin. Glad it isn't sprained though. It ought to be well in four or ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump


Words linked to "Camper" :   vacationist, van, R.V., RV, camp, vacationer, motor home, caravan, camper trailer, recreational vehicle


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