camped-upadj.
/ˌkam(p)tˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌkæm(p)tˈəp/ That has been made (more) camp; esp. (of a work of art, entertainment, a dramatic performance, etc.) performed or executed in a playfully exaggerated or over-the-top way.
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1961 Sunday Tel. 19 Mar. 9/1 ‘The Avengers’ is a preposterous, camped-up bit of make-believe rooted in a Soho of Chinese brothels and bead curtains.
1973 Guardian 6 Nov. 12/6 A heavily camped up version of the Andrews Sisters. Decked out in feather boas, sequins, and platform soles, they do close harmony versions of 'forties standards.
1990 Wilmington (N. Carolina) Morning Star 13 Oct. 40/5 The simple, sappy sentiments emerge without seeming hokey or camped-up.
2001 M. DeAngelis Gay Fandom & Crossover Fandom iii. 171 He lapses into a mincing, camped-up, limpwristed gay stereotype.
2019 Financial Times 20 Feb. 10 Cencic's new production..is a romp, a camped-up extravaganza full of self-parody.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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- take wrack on one
- take years from a person
- take years off a person
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- take, cry, call a truce
- take, cry, call truce
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- take, make, set no count of
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- take, make, set no count of upon
- take, nim shrift
- take-all