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Revision as of 20:04, 5 June 2013
Trailer trash (or trailer park trash) is a derogatory North American English term for poor people living in trailers or mobile homes,[1] and especially people who live in trailer parks.[2] It is particularly used with regard to white people living in such circumstances[3] and can be considered to fall within the category of racial slurs.[4]
Music
The song "Trailer Trash" appears on Modest Mouse's 1997 album The Lonesome Crowded West.
Toby Keith's song "Trailerhood" and Billy Ray Cyrus's song "Burn Down the Trailer Park" contain humorous lyrics about living in a trailer park.
Colt Ford's 2009 song "No trash in my trailer" tells of a redneck type male who throws his girlfriend out of his mobile home. The message being 'there aint no trash in my trailer, since the day I threw you outta here'.
Television
The Canadian television series Trailer Park Boys, done in mockumentary style, documents the misadventures of the residents of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park.
See also
- Ghetto fabulous
- Good ol' boy
- Hillbilly
- Pikey
- Prejudice
- Redneck
- Stereotyping
- White trash
- Yokel (synonymous with "bama", "corn pone", "country", "hayseed", "hick")
References
- ^ Richard A. Spears. "trailer trash". Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions.Fourth Edition. McGraw Hill. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
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.
- ^ "trailer trash". Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
poor people living in trailer parks in the US
- ^ "trailer trash". Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon. Dictionary.com, LLC. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
a poor, lower-class white person, esp. one living in a mobile home with trash in the vicinity
- ^ Henderson, Anita (2003). "What's in a Slur?". American Speech. 78 (1): 52–74. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
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