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 site on the northern end of Roosevelt Street near Laguna Drive is beside a trailer park, close to other residential buildings, restaurants, and a few blocks from the Coaster train station. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025 But to summarize, he was born in San Benito, Texas — not far from Brownsville and the Mexico border town of Matamoros — and raised by his mother in a nearby trailer park. Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025 And a statewide trend of shuttering trailer parks has left the mobile home owners — whose homes, cemented into the ground and movable only at a five-figure cost, aren’t actually all that mobile — with few alternatives. Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025 Three likely tornadoes were reported in Mississippi, damaging homes, power lines and a trailer park. Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 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 Apr. 2025.

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