TO GO TO CAMP, phr. (Australian).—To go to bed; to take rest. [From the practice in the early settlers’ days of forming a camp whenever a halt for the night was called.]
1887. All the Year Round, 30 July, p. 66, col. 2. TO GO TO CAMP, by a transference of its original meaning, now signifies, in the mouth of a dweller in houses, simply ‘to lie down,’ ‘to go to bed.’
TO TAKE INTO CAMP, phr. (common).—To kill.
1878. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’) Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, p. 66. Sure enough one night the trap TOOK Mrs. Jones’s principal tomcat INTO CAMP, and finished him up.
TO CAMP, phr. (Australian).—To surpass; to ‘floor.’
18[?]. H. KENDALL, Billy Vickers.
| At punching oxen you may guess | |
| There’s nothing out can ‘CAMP’ him: | |
| He has, in fact, the slouch and dress | |
| Which bullock-driver stamp him. |
