boot camp
(chiefly, North America) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
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As we approach Mothers Day, words from a military Mom. Posted by a drafted soldier who's mother came to see him on Sundays during boot camp......
The WHCA Journalism Boot Camp™️
7/ 💰 Cerebras Systems files $3.5B Nasdaq IPO. Wafer-scale AI chips as Nvidia alternatives. Q4 revenue up 76% YoY. $20B compute deal with OpenAI. 🍎 Apple sends 200 Siri engineers to emergency AI boot camp. From reneg…
Question for comedy writers. Does this type of comedy-stand up have a genre? Like a sub-genre? I went down the drama pipeline in Hollywood writing boot camp so learned nothing about comedy writing. Calling it dark com…
Tell me how you broke down sobbing in boot camp and the camp commandant checked you off as “indoctrinated for life”. Do you still fold your skivvies the way your DI screamed at you to during an 0400 barracks inspection?
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(chiefly, North America) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products.
“As we approach Mothers Day, words from a military Mom. Posted by a drafted soldier who's mother came to see him on Sundays during boot camp......”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The WHCA Journalism Boot Camp™️”
— Bluesky· May 2026“7/ 💰 Cerebras Systems files $3.5B Nasdaq IPO. Wafer-scale AI chips as Nvidia alternatives. Q4 revenue up 76% YoY. $20B compute deal with OpenAI. 🍎 Apple sends 200 Siri engineers to emergency AI boot camp. From renegades to stragglers.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Question for comedy writers. Does this type of comedy-stand up have a genre? Like a sub-genre? I went down the drama pipeline in Hollywood writing boot camp so learned nothing about comedy writing. Calling it dark comedy would be an understatement. youtu.be/Ay6jUYPH644?...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Tell me how you broke down sobbing in boot camp and the camp commandant checked you off as “indoctrinated for life”. Do you still fold your skivvies the way your DI screamed at you to during an 0400 barracks inspection?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, North America, idiomatic) Any short, often intensive course of training.
We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products.
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(chiefly, North America, military, colloquial) An initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps).
We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products.
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