happy camper

noun

1. Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied:

   There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.

happy camper

noun

1. informal.
   a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper )

Idioms and Phrases

A satisfied participant, a contented person, as in She loved the challenge of her new job; she was one happy camper . This expression is also often put in the negative, as in She hated the heat and humidity of the southern summer; she was not a happy camper . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

He grew up in Montana and uses folksy phrases like “happy camper” and “total baloney.”

From The Daily Beast

I have crazy energy and I am not hungry, but I am not a happy camper either.

From The Daily Beast