camming

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of cam.

   Camming with old friends overseas has become part of her weekend routine.

   The two teams were camming every morning to plan the launch across three time zones.

   Note

   The m doubles before -ing, as in other short verbs that end in one vowel and one consonant. After is or was it describes a video call in progress (they were camming every morning); on its own it names the activity, as in camming with friends overseas. The verb grows from cam, a clipping of camera, and keeps that clipping's casual tone.

2. 2
   nounslanguncountable

   The illegal practice of recording a film off a movie theater screen with a camcorder.

   Studios blame camming for the shaky, muffled copies that turn up online days after a premiere.

   The chain trained its ushers to watch for camming and rewarded anyone who reported a hidden recorder.

   Note

   A slang shortening of camcording that has moved into reporting on film piracy, where writers often pause to explain it, as in Ian Austen's "a process known as camming" (2007). It names the act of filming a screen, not the copy that results, and it takes no plural: a crackdown on camming. The video-chat verb is a separate word that happens to share the spelling.

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