fish camp

English

Noun

fish camp (plural fish camps)

  1. (US, regional) A restaurant serving fried seafood.
    • 2009, Damon Fowler, Classical Southern Cooking, page 124:
      The whole region is dotted with restaurants very much like Taylor Grocery (once called fish camps) that sell only fried fish, and when I was growing up, the announcement that we were eating out meant we were going to the fish camp.
  2. A Native American seasonal camp for the purpose of catching fish and smoking them.

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