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happy camper
noun
- Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied:
There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
happy camper
noun
- informal.a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper )
Idioms and Phrases
A satisfied participant, a contented person, as in She loved the challenge of her new job; she was one happy camper . This expression is also often put in the negative, as in She hated the heat and humidity of the southern summer; she was not a happy camper . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
It would be strange for a team that is losing to be happy campers.
The Cup Final will be televised in the U.S. on TNT, another offshoot of Bettman’s drive to increase revenues, which raises franchise values and makes happy campers of his bosses, the club owners.
Signs suggest that, in part, she may be going back to her "30 Minute Meal" roots - which, selfishly, makes me a very happy camper.
Just don't rush this process; you'll be a very happy camper later if you abide by these directions.
When they weren’t painted as noble savages in the nude, the colonized peoples were portrayed as happy campers decked out in colorful robes.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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