Idiom
trailer trash
Meaning
A poorly-educated, and usually white individual(s) of low social status who stereotypically reside(s) in a trailer park.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“People call them trailer trash just because they live in a mobile home.”
“The movie portrayed the family as trailer trash, with dirty clothes and broken-down cars in the yard.”
“The novel gently subverted the trope: its protagonist, dismissed by neighbors as trailer trash, possessed a library of rare books and a mind sharper than anyone in the county.”
Examples
simple
“People call them trailer trash just because they live in a mobile home.”
contextual
“The movie portrayed the family as trailer trash, with dirty clothes and broken-down cars in the yard.”
complex
“The novel gently subverted the trope: its protagonist, dismissed by neighbors as trailer trash, possessed a library of rare books and a mind sharper than anyone in the county.”
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