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Camper   /kˈæmpər/   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



... it's careless," repeated the Forester. "Sometimes a camper leaves a little fire smoldering when he thinks the last spark is out; sometimes settlers who have to burn over their clearings allow the blaze to get away from them; when Indians are in the neighborhood ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... there are many things for the camper to learn if he does not know how, and one of these things is how to make a fire. If one has matches, kindling and wood there is no trick in making a camp fire, but there is a good trick in making a fire ...
— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort
... within the one small room was clean and 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 ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick
... that was the milldam, which was about the only place they could hope to be able to cross Plum Run—and Watertown lay on the other side. Of course, they might follow the river bank on the chance of meeting some good-hearted fisherman or camper who would row them across. But the chance was too slim. They decided to cut across country till they ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart


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