boot camp

noun

U.S. Navy, Marines.

1. a camp for training recruits.

boot camp

noun

1. slang,  a basic training camp for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps

2. a centre for juvenile offenders, with a strict disciplinary regime, hard physical exercise, and community labour programmes

Word History and Origins

Origin of boot camp¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example Sentences

Some of the ideas from the groups included boosting parent engagement and involvement through workshops or boot camps.

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It’s a boot camp of sorts—Camp Panda—wilderness training for panda cubs.

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Although she claims that Cam is her favorite kid, she only half-listens to him when he says he’s headed to boot camp, instructing him to return home with a carton of milk.

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Some founders break only to exercise at Barry’s boot camp or sweat out toxins at a bathhouse in the city, like Archimedes Banya, where they can chat about future funding rounds with peers.

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But, his grin fading, going through boot camp in New Orleans in the “dead brutal summer,” he says, was anything but a sitcom.

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