Definition of "trailer park" []

• An area in which parking space for house trailers is rented, usually providing utilities and services. Also called trailer camp. (noun)

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• "It referred to his hand-to-mouth existence as a child, when he and his mother and three younger sisters had moved from trailer park to rented room to apartment to rented house with numbing frequency, depending on whether they had managed to scrape together the money to pay that month’s rent."
• "Planning a vacation in southern France, wed come across an advertisement for a chalet with an ocean view and rented itand found, upon arrival, that the chalet was in a trailer park with a scum-covered swimming pool, a broken tennis-court net, and a system for heating hot water that required an engineering degree to understand."
• "One of our hillbilly trailer park neighbors provided Roseanne with some great grist for the Connor mill, with her backwoods Kentucky accent, lanky protofeminine swagger, and the chutzpah to praise her four-year-old daughter’s hot-dog-eating abilities."