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boot camp

The definition of boot camp is a military fitness and training camp.

(noun)

An example of boot camp is the first eight weeks in a soldier's military career, their basic training.

Boot camp is defined as a type of exercise program based on military-style fitness training.

(noun)

An example of boot camp is an early morning class that has students doing lots of running and push ups.

See boot camp in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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a station where Navy or Marine recruits receive basic training

Origin: orig., bootneck, a Marine, in reference to the leather collar of the uniform; later contr. in use for a Marine recruit, then for a trainee more generally

See boot camp in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A training camp for military recruits.
A correctional facility that uses the training techniques applied to military recruits to teach usually youthful offenders socially acceptable patterns of behavior.

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