In a restaurant setting this is when a party is sat at a table by staff, but then the party delays ordering for excessively long periods of time, not related to waiting for others or any valid reason. Usually this is accompanied by the server's frequent check-ins to encourage them to place an order. Reverse campers are not malicious, but rather may be enveloped in conversation with company, or in less-frequent scenarios, may lack the social awareness to remedy their behavior.
This is in contrast with camping, which refers to a party either delaying paying the bill, or paying the bill and choosing to occupy the table for a long period afterward.
This is in contrast with camping, which refers to a party either delaying paying the bill, or paying the bill and choosing to occupy the table for a long period afterward.
Server: "Man that couple over there sat down 30 minutes ago and still haven't opened their menus or ordered drinks."
Bartender: "Yeah, they're reverse camping."
Bartender: "Yeah, they're reverse camping."
by hammerofthorazine August 30, 2019
Get the Reverse Campingmug. by Swagg00 January 4, 2018
Get the reverse water hammermug. 
by zoe is awesome November 21, 2021
Get the Reverse niggalitusmug. Refers to where a schoolteacher requests his students to tell him the answer to a English/history question, math problem, etc. ("Now --- who can tell me what the answer is in this case?", or "I want you to fill in the blank on your page there, to tell me what the answer is")... not only does this strange behavior indicate that the teacher is apparently not qualified for his job, since **he** seemingly doesn't even know the answer himself (plus maybe the question is even too difficult/advanced for his students, if even he --- as an "educated grownup" --- doesn't even seem to know the answer; perhaps he should therefore not even be asking this excessively-advanced question of his much-younger/less-learned students), but it also directly flies in the face of his otherwise strict policy of never answering a question that a student asks **him** about a particular example on a test, but instead insisting that the student laboriously toil to find out the answer for himself.
Disgruntled second-grade student: I wish they'd let us have a better-informed teacher --- she expects US to supply HER with knowledge many times every day, rather than HER teaching US, the way she's supposed to! Talk about reverse/hypocritical teaching --- where'd SHE ever get her teacher's certification, anyway, if she's THAT dumb and uneducated?!??
by QuacksO February 17, 2017
Get the reverse/hypocritical teachingmug. by rT Gravity August 13, 2019
Get the Reverse Cardmug. The opposite of contraband (desirable/valuable items which you do not own but wish to possess), this term refers to decidedly UNdesirable/useless items (heaps of trash, bald tires, hideous-looking/sloppy-fitting clothing, etc.) which ARE indeed legally yours, but which you strongly wish to get rid of.
I got busted for "non-possession of reverse-contraband" when I was attempting to dispose of a truckload of moldy mattresses by throwing them into a ravine.
by QuacksO August 21, 2017
Get the reverse-contrabandmug.