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happy camper

noun

  1. Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied:

    There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.



happy camper

noun

  1. informal.
    a happy, satisifed person (esp in the phrase not a happy camper )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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]

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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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