happy camper
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see happy, camper.
Example Sentences
- "I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute."
- "“You all look like happy campers to me,” Dan Quayle to the people of American Samoa."
- ""Call, but you can't fight union regulations" / "You're probably right. Still, their boss needs to know I'm not a happy camper.""
- "I had kept telling people that this company would be looking for a victim to pay for this. They would not let it go. And it wasn't just them—look at all the Mob guys I threw out of the union. They weren't happy campers."
Etymology
The Dictionary of American Slang suspects the phrase to have originated among California movie and show-business people as a reference to child clients of summer camps.