boot camp









boot camp


noun U.S. Navy, Marines.

  1. a camp for training recruits.

noun

  1. US slang a basic training camp for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps
  2. a centre for juvenile offenders, with a strict disciplinary regime, hard physical exercise, and community labour programmes
n.

by 1941, U.S. Marines slang, said to be from boot (n.) as slang for “recruit,” which supposedly dates from the Spanish-American War and is a synecdoche from boots, leggings worn by U.S. sailors.

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