trailer camp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trailer camp
An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As the children — who made up nearly two-thirds of the new tenants — played, their parents and grandparents inspected the homes of the new Winona trailer camp.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
Frank Kawana was 12 when his family moved into the trailer camp in El Segundo, which sat near North American Aviation’s B-25 bomber plant.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
By 1955 the trailer camp boasted a heated pool, shuffleboard courts, horseshoes and a playground with six swings, tetherball and a sandbox.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
There is also a shortage of moderate-income housing for Vail's 2,000 ski instructors, waiters and salespeople, many of whom live in a trailer camp a dozen miles away.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's a trailer camp right behind this Palm Springs motel, see, the one where I've got my radios, an' it's full of all these ritzy guys and dames, see.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
