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  • adjective made as part of the arts-and-crafts program at summer camp

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Examples

  • She began asking around for other camp-made objects.

    The Creative Art Of Coping In Japanese Internment 2010

  • I had recovered enough in a week to send to Albany for a gang of ultram 50mg to blow up the Martense mansion and the reasonable top of Tempest Mountain with dynamite, vacate up all the camp-made drug fioricet, and bury episcopal nostalgic trees whose petty existence indulged an insult to sanity.

    Think Progress » Adding Insult to Illigitimacy 2005

  • They are of no use as food except to stimulate a feeble stomach or furnish a spurt of energy, but invaluable for flavoring camp-made soups and stews when you are far away from beef.

    Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

  • It happened that the girls had each been given a cue by Julie, so that when the Grey Fox boys came into camp, Judith was found sweeping carefully with a camp-made broom, Amy and Betty were placing a tabletop upon its legs and then starting to set the table, and the other scouts were busy with other unusual things.

    Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

  • Hirasuna found many other trinkets from her family's time in internment, and began asking around for other camp-made objects.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Hirasuna found many other trinkets from her family's time in internment, and began asking around for other camp-made objects.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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