"happy camper" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "The Dictionary of American Slang suspects the phrase to have originated among California movie and show-business people as a reference to child clients of summer camps.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute.",
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        {
          "ref": "1989 April 26, Shirley Marlow, “Quayle Visits Samoa, Decides He'll Give It a Break”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "“You all look like happy campers to me,” Dan Quayle to the people of American Samoa.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Roz Denny Fox, Sweet Tibby Mack, page 132:",
          "text": "\"Call, but you can't fight union regulations\" / \"You're probably right. Still, their boss needs to know I'm not a happy camper.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Deepa Kumar, quoting Ron Carey, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike, Appendix, page 194:",
          "text": "I had kept telling people that this company would be looking for a victim to pay for this. They would not let it go. And it wasn't just them—look at all the Mob guys I threw out of the union. They weren't happy campers.",
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        "One who is thoroughly content or satisfied."
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        "(chiefly US, informal) One who is thoroughly content or satisfied."
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        {
          "word": "happy bunny"
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see happy, camper."
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  "etymology_text": "The Dictionary of American Slang suspects the phrase to have originated among California movie and show-business people as a reference to child clients of summer camps.",
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          "text": "I will be a happy camper when they fix the potholes on my commute.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 April 26, Shirley Marlow, “Quayle Visits Samoa, Decides He'll Give It a Break”, in Los Angeles Times:",
          "text": "“You all look like happy campers to me,” Dan Quayle to the people of American Samoa.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Roz Denny Fox, Sweet Tibby Mack, page 132:",
          "text": "\"Call, but you can't fight union regulations\" / \"You're probably right. Still, their boss needs to know I'm not a happy camper.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Deepa Kumar, quoting Ron Carey, Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike, Appendix, page 194:",
          "text": "I had kept telling people that this company would be looking for a victim to pay for this. They would not let it go. And it wasn't just them—look at all the Mob guys I threw out of the union. They weren't happy campers.",
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      ],
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        "One who is thoroughly content or satisfied."
      ],
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