trailer park
46
3.3
- noun
- /ˈtreɪlər pɑrk/
- US
:
parque de casas móviles
- Living in a trailer park often means sharing amenities like laundry facilities and a swimming pool.
Lived in a little trailer park and nice neat little home.
- Lived in a little trailer park and nice neat little home.
- And these are trailer parks where two families live in a small trailer.
- But you know, I grew up in a trailer park.
- And there we lived in like a trailer park.
- We're choosing trailer parks and factories and junk yards.
- My character Kian is a down and out failed writer in a trailer park in the Midwest who's run out of insurance and he's got a brain tumor.
- You know the home, the trailer park or the trailer park.
- How are we going to get rid of the damn progressives or what am I going to do with these trailer park people with their MAGA hats?
Examples
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In 1974, I graduated high school and moved with my grandparents to a trailer park in Orlando, Florida.
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I got in, and he drove to the trailer park.
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- It's a trailer park South of town.
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This is a trailer park.
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We're gonna move into a trailer park.
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Who lives in those trailer parks?
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We are in the northeast corner of the trailer park.
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Stanley lived in a trailer park a mile from the campus.
Fiction book (1997) -
My parents had moved from the old neighborhood to a trailer park called Happy Trails Trailer Lots.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rhode Island officials drafted these regulations after gasoline contaminated a trailer park's water supply.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
1
4.2
A place where people rent spaces for homes on wheels with water and electricity
How Permanent
29
2.5
- US
46
3.3
- US
1
4.2
- US
42
2.1
- US
497
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
trailer + park
The meaning 'an area where trailers or mobile homes are kept' is directly and compositionally derived from 'trailer' (a towable living vehicle) + 'park' (a place/area). This noun–noun compounding pattern is transparent and common in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Trailer park comes from the simple image of many trailers parked together in one 'park', a place where 'mobile homes' stay. So it means a site with lots of mobile homes, often with cheaper housing and shared facilities.