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Rising damp is London Cockney rhyming slang for cramp.
Was for many years the term of choice in the UK for describing the 'characteristic homosexual behaviours' such as assumed effeminacy but was supplanted by the US term 'gay'. Hence the expression to 'camp it up', and the 'hidden' joke in the film title 'Carry on Camping'. The word (and many other underground gay terms) was popularised and brought to general public attention and useage by the late 1950's radio show 'Round the Horne'.
Camp is a slang expression for homosexual, effeminate or an affectedly theatrical manner.
Boot camp is American slang for to vomit. Boot camp is American slang for a basic training camp for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps.
Gamp is British slang for an umbrella.
Ramp up is British slang for to arrange, to organise.
a semipermanent field headquarters and center for a given unit usually within that unit's tactical areas responsibility. A unit may operate in or away from its base camp. Base camps usually contain all or part of a given unit's support elements. Pg. 504
Vamp is slang for a seductress.
To hurry. ("Come on, guys, break camp!").
n (yes, noun) wet rot. You might hear it in a phrase such as: BobÂ’s moved out of his house as itÂ’s been practically destroyed by damp.
Sarah Gamp is London Cockney rhyming slang for a lamp.
Scruffy, smelly obnoxious tramp (the hobo not the female with liberated sexual attitudes). Rhymes with tramp, first used in a rather delightful poem about an old tramp called Harry Ramp: "Harry Ramp, The parafin lamp, Was a dirty bamp..." (ed: no idea if there are more lines or verses. Would appreciate them if there are any to send in)
cast iron pot for cooking on a camp fire
Crude shacks or camps on the outermost boundaries of a ranch.
Tamp up is American tramp slang for to assault or beat
Adj. An effeminate style and mannerism affected mainly by 'gays', however anyone can 'camp it up.' [1930s]
Vamp up is British slang for to intensify, to make more effective. Vamp up is British slang for to improvise.
Verb. To overact in an affected manner. E.g."If you want to see people camping it up, walk down Canal Street in the Gay Village in Manchester on a Saturday night." See 'camp'.
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A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.
n.
To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
v. t.
To deprive of cap.
pl.
of Aid-de-camp
pron.
As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
pl.
of Carp
n.
To play the game called camp.
v. t.
To afflict with cramp.
v. t.
To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
pron.
As a substance for any noun of the neuter gender; as, here is the book, take it home.
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As an indefinite nominative for a impersonal verb; as, it snows; it rains.
n.
A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
v. t.
To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.
v. t.
To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
n.
A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See Cruclan carp.
v. i.
To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; -- often with out.
v. t.
To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
n.
Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
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