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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Listen to this article Two men have been convicted in the 2022 killing of a 15-year-old boy at a south Jersey trailer park. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025 All of his movies present prototypical images of common spaces: a house in Hollywood, a boardroom, a log cabin, an American trailer park. Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025 Neighbors apparently raised questions after not seeing the child for several days and at least one neighbor was arguing with Dixon about the matter Sunday morning, leading the trailer park manager to report the incident. Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025 To that end, Jacobo and roughly three dozen of his neighbors gathered on Dec. 21 outside their community, a 900-home trailer park, to protest its imminent closure. Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 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 22 Feb. 2025.

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