single-wide

American  

[sing-guhl-wahyd] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˌwaɪd /

Or singlewide

noun

1. a mobile home used as a permanent residence.

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adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a mobile home.

Etymology

Origin of single-wide

First recorded in 1965–70; by analogy with double-wide ( def. )

Example Sentences

Russo, who had lived in West Hollywood for 24 years, thought she had found her paradise: a single-wide trailer in the Tahitian Terrace mobile home park across the street from Will Rogers State Beach.

From Los Angeles Times

After his arrest, Lynch lost his California home in bankruptcy and eventually moved into a single-wide trailer on his mother’s property in New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times

These days, he struggles financially, lives in a single-wide trailer on his mom’s property in New Mexico and strains to remember the details of the marijuana operation that got him in so much trouble.

From Los Angeles Times

At the time, Hoover says she was poor and living in a single-wide trailer.

From Los Angeles Times

Under the government’s theory, the murder occurred in the Schofield home, a single-wide trailer.

From New York Times