trailer trash
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- noun
- /ˈtreɪlər træʃ/
- Slur
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[Ofensivo] término despectivo para personas pobres que viven en parques de casas móviles
- So, you don't like poor folk and want to ridicule them by calling them trailer trash?
- a piece of trailer trash
- a trailer trash girl
- look like trailer trash
It is myself and Chelsea Lynn trailer trash Tammy.
- It is myself and Chelsea Lynn trailer trash Tammy.
Examples
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We welcome morons like you in, and how do you thank us? By calling us trailer trash.
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That's trailer trash behavior.
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Go back to your trailer park, you trailer trash.
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So you twisted trailer trash, get off this site and go take a few night courses on global affairs and politics.
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Btw, I was trailer trash many years ago.
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He'd gone from trailer trash to the U.S. Senate.
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I believe you call them trailer trash, poor white trash, hillbillies...
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Mary Jo is very good at playing those trailer trash gals.
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Some don't, of course, but to assume fans of Star Wars are trailer trash or 30-somethings living with their parents is just ignorant.
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People often unfairly judge those living in a trailer park as trailer trash.
Synonyms
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People who are treated as worthless or unimportant
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound meaning is directly built from 'trailer' (mobile home) and 'trash' (contemptible people), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an insulting label for people who live in trailer parks. Although it is slang, offensive, and regionally specific, the semantic composition is straightforward and therefore predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Trailer trash may come from the picture of cheap mobile homes called trailers with messy yards full of trash, so people began to use trash to mean someone 'not respected'. That's why the phrase became an insulting way to describe 'poor people' who live in trailer parks.