to camp out
48
2.4
- phrasal verb
- /kæmp aʊt/
:
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- This weekend, we will camp out in the woods to enjoy nature and the fresh air.
- camp out overnight
- camp out at night
- people camp out
Like, I can't imagine my kids just camping out, but we used to do that.
- Like, I can't imagine my kids just camping out, but we used to do that.
- I mean, I think he would camp out in my front yard and be there toe to toe.
- They went there to camp out amongst these graves and host these parties, which the professor emeritus of history at Yale University calls Chill Outs.
- They only spent one night on the on the town green camped out.
- And and this and this fella fucking him and his buddy camped out in our yard for like a week and a half and never did the work either.
- So I don't want to camp out there, but I think I, I still cannot say like toe the party line of niceness and say, cuz here, here's the deal.
Examples
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I'm too old to camp out in the woods.
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Reporters camped out at the site; even official newspapers took up the couple's cause.
Academic text (2008) -
The owners of the property allowed us to camp out on the land every weekend until we were ready.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'll give Woo a call and ask him if I can camp out with him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Piney invited the gang to camp out near his favorite tree.
Fiction book (1999) -
Not since childhood when she and Jane Mazzi used to camp out in the backyard of her parents' house.
Fiction book (1998) -
Tom, virtually every reporter in Washington is camped out here awaiting the President's first appearance since his stroke...
Fiction book (1993) -
Whole families are camping out in the lobby; travelers wrapped in blankets are sleeping amid their luggage.
Fiction book (1994) -
During the summer, many families choose to camp out by the lake for a fun getaway.
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They decided to camp out in the backyard for a night filled with stories and stargazing.
Synonyms
220
1.0
To stay in a tent or simple shelter outdoors
51
1.0
To sleep outdoors in a tent for fun
5
7.6
To set up tents or temporary shelters and live there for a time
3
2.8
To sleep or stay in a small portable shelter outside
1
9.9
To sleep outdoors in a simple shelter
1
9.5
To stay for a short time in a simple camp outdoors, often without tents
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to sleep or live outdoors' is directly and literally derived from combining 'camp' (to stay or sleep outdoors in tents) with 'out' (outdoors), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning. This is a regular verb+particle composition common in English and cross-linguistically, making it transparently compositional rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Camp out comes from the simple image of making a small camp and staying out in the open, often overnight, like fans who sleep outside to get concert tickets. So it means 'to sleep or live outdoors for a short time'.