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Idioms and Phrases

Sleep outdoors; also, stay somewhere for an unusually long time. For example, “We camped out in a field this night” (George Washington, Journal, March 18, 1748). In the early 1900s, the expression was extended to figurative uses, meaning simply “to stay somewhere for an unusually long time,” as in She camped out at the stage door, hoping for an autograph .
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Example Sentences

Foreign tourists would often hike up the winding road and camp out in the ruins.

You have to camp out in the lobbies of fancy office buildings and banks.

But first—a mocha latte, then he's going back to camp out on Pearl Square all night.

It, too, starts well before dawn, with singers showing up the night before to camp out.

They were going to camp out in the woods all night, and they had stopped near a pool of water.

To Cordova tonight, and to a camp out on a glacier tomorrow.

A few families pitched their wigwams together and lived in much the same way as people do now when they camp out in the summer.

But Chippy Hackee continued to camp out for another week, although it was uncomfortable.

We have some biscuit in our pockets, and if we don't get back before night, why we will just camp out.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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