Trailer trash

Trailer park in Tampa, Florida, in 1958

Trailer trash is a derogatory North American English term for poor people living in a trailer or a run-down mobile home in a bad neighborhood.[1][2] It is particularly used to denigrate white people living in such circumstances.[3]

  1. ^ Spears, Richard A. (October 1, 2005). McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071461078. the poorest of people who live in run-down house trailers in bad neighborhoods. (Used with singular or plural force. Rude and derogatory.) : She's just trailer trash. Probably doesn't even own shoes.
  2. ^ Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. poor people living in trailer parks in the US
  3. ^ "Trailer trash". Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Archived from the original on August 4, 2010. a poor, lower-class white person, esp. one living in a mobile home with trash in the vicinity