Definitions

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  • adjective Involving sleeping away from home

Etymologies

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sleep +‎ away

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Examples

  • With exciting day camps & teen travel camps, short-term sleepaway camps, specialty camps, and camps for children with developmental disabilities, New York's 92nd Street Y has a program tailor-made for your child's interests and needs.

    92Y Blog 2008

  • Indeed, the lengthy "sleepaway" experience was originally a Northeast phenomenon.

    Club Bunk Bed 2008

  • Indeed, the lengthy "sleepaway" experience was originally a Northeast phenomenon.

    Cabin Fever 2008

  • Jewish parents view sleepaway camp as a place for their children to develop independence, grow emotionally, make lifelong friends, get away from the grind of school, learn a smorgasbord of completely non-relevant life skills like how to shoot an arrow, ride a zip line, capsize a canoe, create cheesy Color War songs, and just have crazy fun.

    Wendy Sachs: Chinese Moms Vs. Jewish Moms: Who Is Mother Superior? Wendy Sachs 2011

  • We really focus on creating strong self-esteem, a camp director promised on my sleepaway camp tour to Maine last summer.

    Wendy Sachs: Chinese Moms Vs. Jewish Moms: Who Is Mother Superior? Wendy Sachs 2011

  • After a quick demonstration of her fish stick nunchucks, the main story sends the kids off to sleepaway camp for the first time.

    Lunch Lady and the Summer Camp Shakedown » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • Tagged with academia, debt, CWRU, How the University Works, Tufts, college is a four-year sleepaway camp for rich kids, student loan reform, NYU, safety schools

    But Probably Not « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • As long as we can hold on to the playdates, sleepovers, open debating and sleepaway camp.

    Wendy Sachs: Chinese Moms Vs. Jewish Moms: Who Is Mother Superior? Wendy Sachs 2011

  • "This is my sleepaway camp experience," Ms. Wald said, of her time with the Minardi athletes.

    At Hamptons Event, It's Name, Set, Match Marshall Heyman 2011

  • When Brian was nine Hank wanted to send him to sleepaway camp.

    White Bread Jessica Anya Blau 2011

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