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 Pan American Estates trailer park, once home to more than 200 families, would be transformed by a new 25-acre development that calls for 10 buildings ranging from five to eight stories. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2024 Those albums took Booker — who grew up in a trailer park in the deep red outskirts of Tampa, Florida, and cut his teeth in Gainesville’s stalwart punk scene — around the world. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024 The Pinewoods Library, an informal community center that is in a trailer park with a large Latino population, drew about two hundred scared neighbors to a meeting where the local sheriff and the Athens district attorney, Deborah Gonzalez, sought to assure them of their safety. David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024 To film the video, the duo headed south to Marfa, Texas, the remote, artist community in the western part of the state, and set up shop in the colorful El Cosmico trailer park. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024 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 26 Dec. 2024.

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