Boot camp
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Boot camp originally refers to military recruit training, the initial indoctrination and instruction given to new military personnel.
Boot camp can also refer to:
- Boot camp (correctional), a type of correctional facility for adolescents, especially in the US penal system
- Boot Camp, Apple's software for installing Windows on an Intel-based Macintosh computer
- Boot Camp (TV series), a 2001 reality television show
- Bootcamp, a band
- An accelerated, continuing education program for professionals, e.g. computer skills aptitude certification bootcamps for Java or Cisco CCNA
- Sports team training camp of exceptional physical severity, especially in seclusion and including humiliating and/or painful punishments.
- A popular form of instructor-led exercise class that features an early morning start time and rigorous calisthenics
- Full time residential, and usually remotely situated drug rehabilitation and/or general attitude correction programs, often imposed upon minors by their parents or guardians
- A street gang in Syracuse, New York
