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camp out
Idioms and Phrases
Sleep outdoors; also, stay somewhere for an unusually long time. For example, “We camped out in a field this night” (George Washington, Journal, March 18, 1748). In the early 1900s, the expression was extended to figurative uses, meaning simply “to stay somewhere for an unusually long time,” as in She camped out at the stage door, hoping for an autograph .Example Sentences
In Terminal 4 at JFK, British serviceman William Hastings, 31, camped out, enduring a similar ordeal with a different airline, Delta.
Mr Haw camped out in Parliament Square for nearly 10 years to protest against UK and US foreign policy.
Crockett, a prolific country-music singer and songwriter from the southernmost tip of Texas, has been camped out here at this storied Hollywood recording studio as he works on an album with producer Shooter Jennings.
Hundreds of them had camped out overnight on Tuesday, as the arrest appeared imminent, in temperatures that plummeted to -8C.
They camped out on Anacostia Flats and other public spaces that served as bases of operation for their marches and protests.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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