fly camp

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a temporary camp away from the main camp, so called because flies were carried as the only shelter.

See: fly

Quotations

1964

Outside on the river bank . . . Hughes moved one helicopter . . . off to the nearest fly camp, 35 miles southwest.

1965

I started back to the fly camp with one plug of chewing tobacco . . . .