camp (2) — OAT

camp2

adjective

1 British a heavily made-up and highly camp actor:

effeminate, effete, foppish, affected, niminy-piminy, mincing, posturing, campy, queeny;

offensive limp-wristed, pansyish.

▷antonyms macho, virile.

2 a film full of camp humor and slapstick:

exaggerated, theatrical, actorly, affected, mannered, flamboyant, extravagant, overripe, camped up;

informal over the top, OTT.

verb

□ British camp it up

he camped it up a bit for the cameras:

posture, behave theatrically, behave affectedly, overact, overdo it, go overboard, show off, ham it up;

North American, informal cop an attitude.