boot camp
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4.1
- noun
- /buːt kæmp/
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campo de entrenamiento
- I'll never forget what I learned in boot camp.
So yeah, I went to boot camp in Virginia Beach.
- So yeah, I went to boot camp in Virginia Beach.
- What do movies not show you about boot camp or joining the Marine?
- And boot camp was nothing like I expected.
- And that's where I went to to boot camp.
- People who've read my story always think it reminds them of boot camp in the Army.
- And so basically what happened, Rich, is you have to go through Navy boot camp before you go to SEAL training.
- And in our first episode, we talked about his experience in Air Force boot camp because he is a violinist with the United States Air Force.
- Now to make that bond a little bit stronger, after you get done with boot camp, they send you to advanced infantry school and you suffer some more together.
Examples
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We have 8 weeks of boot camp ahead of us, men.
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Roy had to leave for boot camp in a week.
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And it's off to boot camp before officer training.
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You went to boot camp, right?
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I never even made it through boot camp.
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Your daddy and I became friends in boot camp.
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Five weeks later, he found himself in boot camp.
Fiction book (1996) -
In 2006, Bob joined the Illinois National Guard, went to boot camp, and then straight to Iraq.
Blog text (14) -
On the fourth of January, with a busload of other innocents, I went into boot camp.
Fiction book (1995) -
The recruits were nervous as they arrived at boot camp for their intense training.
Synonyms
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3.4
A first period of military training for new soldiers with hard exercise and strict rules
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3.4
To teach people the skills to be soldiers
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
boot + camp
The element 'camp' gives a clear sense of a temporary gathering place, and 'boot' evokes a military/discipline association, so there is a partial compositional cue. However, the specific sense 'short, intensive training program' (especially extended non-military uses like coding bootcamps) requires cultural or idiomatic knowledge and is not fully predictable from the parts alone, making it partially but not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun boot camp began in the military, where new soldiers were called boots and sent to a camp for hard, basic training. That's why boot camp means 'basic training'.