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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The move continues a statewide trend of trailer parks closing to make way for development. Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 In addition, Flow is partnering with Canada Global to redevelop a 16-acre trailer park in El Portal into a mixed-use project with 2,380 apartments. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 16 May 2025 Over the course of the search, which involved local police and U.S. Marshals, several sightings of the teen were reported—including a tip called in late April that she was spotted at a trailer park in Clinton Township, according to Facebook posts on her mother's page. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025 Their first home was in a trailer park in Paradise Cove. Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 11 Jan. 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 28 May. 2025.

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