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.

Alternative forms

• fishcamp