holiday camp

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noun

British a place, esp one at the seaside, providing accommodation, recreational facilities, etc, for holiday-makers

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Words nearby holiday camp

Holi, holiatry, holibut, -holic, holiday, holiday camp, holidayer, holidaymaker, holiday season, holier-than-thou, holily

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How to use holiday camp 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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Day a state holiday, 21 years after President Reagan made it a federal holiday.
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Not long after the holiday presents are put away and the guests have gone home, another season begins.
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While traveling this holiday season, a relative and I were pulled over by a police officer.
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Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?
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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
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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Ascension being a holiday here, all we pianists made up a walking party out to Tiefurt, about two miles distant.
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