1 a truck, or a container with wheels, that is pulled by another vehicle:
a car towing a trailer with a boat on it
seealsoTRACTOR-TRAILER
2 (AmE) a vehicle without an engine, that can be pulled by a car or truck or used as a home or an office when it is parked:
a trailer park (= an area where trailers are parked and used as homes)
3 (especially BrE) a series of short scenes from a film/movie or television programme, shown in advance to advertise it
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for trailer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is trailer a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, trailer is tagged as noun.
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