double-wide

or, often, dou·ble-width
Or double·wide

[duhb-uhl-wahyd]

adjective

1. twice the usual width.

   double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.

Word History and Origins

Origin of double-wide¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Five months after her 100th birthday, the Palisades fire tore through Tahitian Terrace, destroying her double-wide trailer and 156 other homes in the park.

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After viewing a 1969 double-wide trailer, they told the young couple: You should buy it.

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Borris and his wife, Dorothy Baumann, then in their 30s, moved to Tahitian Terrace, snapping up a 1960s double-wide trailer on Vista Terrace.

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Loesch didn’t stake the company’s future on dailies’ big, double-wide presses that are falling out of favor.

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There’s a picture from that day that shows Auerbach, a high school sports star from a solidly middle-class upbringing, sitting in the scrubby yard outside Ford’s double-wide trailer home.

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