freedom-camp

English

Alternative forms

• freedom camp
• free-camp

Verb

freedom-camp (third-person singular simple present freedom-camps, present participle freedom-camping, simple past and past participle freedom-camped)

1. (intransitive) To camp out at any convenient location rather than at a designated campground.
   • 2015, Karina Halle, Where Sea Meets Sky, page 304:

     We freedom-camped along some unnamed river in the Northland, aka illegally parked overnight somewhere to sleep.

   • 2018, Susan C. Tunney, Do They Speak English Down There?:

     We took a boat ride across the lake and I was reminded that my son had told me rumors about the “bush” Maori living in the hills who often rattled the folk who freedom camped around the lake, as this was their land after all.