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boot camp
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boot camp
n.
1. A training camp for military recruits.
2. A correctional facility that uses the training techniques applied to military recruits to teach usually youthful offenders socially acceptable patterns of behavior.
boot camp
Noun
a centre for juvenile offenders, with strict discipline and hard physical exercise
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Noun1.boot campboot camp - camp for training military recruits
bivouac, camp, cantonment, encampment - temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"


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Teen boot camps are modeled after military training camps, and can be either public or private.
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The typical way to end up in a private program is to be sent there by your parents, though judges and public schools have been known to send kids to private boot camps as well.
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The episode offers a terrifying glimpse of the "behavior modification" (BM) industry, of which teen boot camps are merely one example.
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