camp robber

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noun Chiefly Northern U.S. and Western Canada.

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Origin of camp robber

First recorded in 1885–90; so called from its habit of pilfering food from campsites

Words nearby camp robber

campo santo, campout, camp oven, Camp Pendleton, camp pie, camp robber, campshed, camp shirt, campshot, campsite, Camp Springs

How to use camp robber in a sentence

Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”
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Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?
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For now, Sabrine continues her daily routine of visits to the protest camp, to political leaders and taking care of the twins.
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In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.
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The prison camp island nation known as Cuba erupted in celebration.
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"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In the most perfect stillness, we arrived within two hundred paces of the enemy's camp.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.
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The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Meanwhile, he had been selected as aide-de-camp by General d'Ure de Molans.
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