Editing Trailer trash (section)

{{Short description|Derogatory term for mobile home dwellers}}
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[[File:1958 photo of Zimmer trailer in a trailer park in Tampa Florida.jpg|thumb|Trailer park in Tampa, Florida, in 1958]]
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'''''Trailer trash''''' is a derogatory [[North American English]] term for [[poverty|poor people]] living in a [[travel trailer|trailer]] or a run-down [[mobile home]] in a bad neighborhood.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Spears|first1=Richard A.|title=McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions|date=1 Oct 2005|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=0071461078|quote=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.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|quote=poor people living in trailer parks in the US}}</ref> It is particularly used to denigrate [[white people]] living in such circumstances.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trailer trash |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trailer+trash |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804212739/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/trailer+trash |archive-date=2010-08-04 |publisher=Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon |quote=a poor, lower-class white person, esp. one living in a mobile home with trash in the vicinity}}</ref>