Idiom
boot camp
Meaning
Any short, often intensive course of training.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She joined a two-week coding boot camp to learn fast.”
“Before the new restaurant opened, all the staff went through a boot camp on customer service.”
“The aspiring journalists endured a gruelling boot camp of deadlines and edits, emerging with sharper skills and thicker skin.”
Examples
simple
“She joined a two-week coding boot camp to learn fast.”
contextual
“Before the new restaurant opened, all the staff went through a boot camp on customer service.”
complex
“The aspiring journalists endured a gruelling boot camp of deadlines and edits, emerging with sharper skills and thicker skin.”
Origin
From boot in the US military slang sense of “new recruit” + camp.
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