camp stove

noun

1. a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.

Word History and Origins

Origin of camp stove¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

The UK Ministry of Defence said in 2022 that the fire had likely been caused by a camp stove knocked over during the training exercise in the conservancy.

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At one lavish apartment, men say they are sleeping on blankets on marble floors beneath giant chandeliers and cooking on a camp stove in its modern kitchen.

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It features big eyes made out of a Coleman camp stove grill with eyelashes scavenged from a neighbor’s leftover artificial turf.

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A fancy tent or camp stove, perhaps.

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He’s been able to make it because he’s well stocked with battery-powered lights, has a camp stove and hand coffee grinder to make pour-over coffee, he said.

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