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trailer park

noun

: an area equipped to accommodate mobile homes

called also trailer camp, trailer court

Examples of trailer park in a Sentence

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Flight 191 crashed into an open field, and the wreckage scattered into an adjacent trailer park, killing all 271 people onboard the flight and two people on the ground and injuring two others. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025 Vecna lorded that over him and killed him on a road near the trailer park. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025 Trailer Park Boys is a faux documentary about three petty criminals running scams from their Halifax trailer park and streams on Netflix. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025 The show follows three trouble-making trailer park residents, Julian (Tremblay), Bubbles (Smith) and Ricky (Wells), who are inexplicably the subject of a documentary about their lives. Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trailer park

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trailer park was in 1937

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“Trailer park.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trailer%20park. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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