camp
camp is a valid 4-letter word worth 10 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends.
What does camp mean?
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality.
“the living room was pure camp”
Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers.
“level ground is best for parking and camp areas”
A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months.
“city kids get to see the country at a summer camp”
Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs.
Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers.
“wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling”
A group of people living together in a camp.
“the whole camp laughed at his mistake”
A penal institution (often for forced labor).
“China has many camps for political prisoners”
Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.
Establish or set up a camp.
Live in or as if in a tent.
“Can we go camping again this summer?”
“The houseguests had to camp in the living room”
Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
“they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect”
“campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's”