Think of them instead as boot camp drill instructors, whipping out of shape or underperforming laggards into top-flight athletes.
Month three of boot camp has begun, but the pounds stubbornly refuse to budge.
But, one mistake later, the eighth-grader who had never known trouble faces five months in a military-style boot camp.
The boot camp, so popular that it has been expanded to six times a year, plays out against a magnificent backdrop.
They go through a rigorous debate boot camp at the start of their first semester.
He hadn't used semaphores since boot camp, but now he grabbed hold of two flags and raised his hands high.
boot camp programs are modeled after military basic training.
British Dictionary definitions for boot camp
boot camp
noun
1.
(US, slang) a basic training camp for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps
2.
a centre for juvenile offenders, with a strict disciplinary regime, hard physical exercise, and community labour programmes
Word Origin and History for boot camp
n.
by 1941, U.S. Marines slang, said to be from boot (n.) as slang for "recruit," which supposedly dates from the Spanish-American War and is a synecdoche from boots, leggings worn by U.S. sailors.
Slang definitions & phrases for boot camp
boot camp
noun phrase
A asi training center (WWI Navy & Marine Corps)
A penal camp, resembling a military boot camp in rigor, used as a substitute for imprisonment: The penal system is moving toward separate drug-treatment facilities, boot camps for young offenders(1980s+)
Any very strict training facility: militant pro-life boot camp(1990s+)