camper
nounUS /ˈkæmpɚ/ · UK /ˈkæmpə/
Etymology From camp (verb) + -er.
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A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
- There were thousands of campers at the music festival.
- They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.2008 March 13, David Pogue, “Media Players, Untethered”, in The New York Times:
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- To be sung to in this way by the entire faery kingdom, each member of it born from the heartsong of a camper, was truly a delight that not many, I believe, have known.2010, Erjan J. Slavin, The Tale of the Mirror (& The Wishing Tree Poetry), →ISBN, page 72:
2
A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
- The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.2003, Roberta Martin Starry, Gold Gamble, page 156:
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Video games Derogatory A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
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Slang A person who stays too long at a table after eating.
- I'm trying to get rid of the campers on table seven.
- Derived terms
- camper shell, campership, camper van, canoe camper, corpse camper, freedom camper, glamper, happy camper, left lane camper, noncamper, right lane camper, spawn camper, stealth camper, summer camper, truck camper, water camper, workcamper