Camp vs Ghetto - What's the difference?
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(label) Conflict; battle.
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
A single hut or shelter.
The company or body of persons encamped.
* Macaulay
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
(uncommon) campus
(informal) A summer camp.
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.
(UK, obsolete) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
To wrangle; argue.
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
To set up a camp.
To afford rest or lodging for.
* Shakespeare
(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.
of or related to a camp
An affected]], [[exaggerate, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
(of a, man) Ostentatiously effeminate.
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
* 2009 , Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city (ISBN 0300112343), page 25:
* 2010 , Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past (ISBN 1615664149), page 49:
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An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
* 1998 , Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (ISBN 0791439194), page 15:
* 1998 , Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (ISBN 0226342441), page 253:
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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
* 2006 , Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ISBN 0789016036), page 201:
* 2007 , Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782), page 190:
* 2001 , Justin Taylor, ''The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (ISBN 0061881821), page 64:
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Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
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(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
* 1964 , James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow , page 274:
* 2001 , Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties (ISBN 0060935502), page 526:
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(wikipedia camp)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)- a hunter's camp
- The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
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Verb
(en verb)- We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
- Had our great palace the capacity / To camp this host, we all would sup together.
- The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
- Go and camp the flag for the win.
Derived terms
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* camper * campness * campfire * camp site, campsite * campstead, campsteading * campground * campestral * concentration camp * death camp * extermination camp * fat camp * spawn camping * summer campEtymology 2
Believed to be from Polari, otherwise obscure.listed in the Oxford English Dictionary'', second edition (1989) Suggested origins include the 17th century French word ''camper'', 'to put oneself in a pose',Douglas Harper,"camp (adj.)"] in: ''Etymonline.com - Online Etymology Dictionary'', 2001ffan assumed dialectal English word ''camp'' or ''kemp'' meaning 'rough' or 'uncouth' and a derivation from ''camp'' (n.)Micheal Quinion, [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cam1.htm "Camp" in: ''World Wide Words , 2003
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* camp it up * campyStatistics
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ghetto
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- The Venetian ghetto', according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ' ghetto , on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.
- Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes .
- By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto .
- Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto . The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.
- The student ghetto , southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.
- They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians,
Derived terms
* ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * ghettoise, ghettoizeAdjective
(en adjective)- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
- I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
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* nonghettoVerb
(es)- This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
- All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.
