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means A style or sensibility that revels in exaggeration, artifice, and theatricality, celebrating what's 'too much' as a kind of knowing, affectionate joke on taste itself.

from Murky by etymology's own admission — the word surfaces in French slang around the late 1800s, 'se camper' meaning to posture or strike a bold, exaggerated pose, possibly tangled up with theatrical and gay subcultures who used it as sly shorthand for flamboyant self-display. It stayed underground slang for decades before Susan Sontag's 1964 essay 'Notes on Camp' dragged it into the open and gave it a vocabulary. No one can cite a clean single root — only a trail of knowing winks.