trailer
a large van or wagon drawn by an automobile, truck, or tractor, used especially in hauling freight by road.: Compare full trailer, semitrailer.
Also called travel trailer. a vehicle attached to an automobile and used as a mobile home or place of business, usually equipped with furniture, kitchen facilities, bathroom, etc.: Compare tent trailer.
a person or thing that trails.
a trailing plant.
a short promotional film composed of clips showing highlights of a movie due for release in the near future.
blank film at the end of a reel or strip of film, for winding off the film in a motion-picture camera or projector.: Compare leader (def. 6).
Ceramics. a can with a spout, used in slip trailing.
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How to use trailer in a sentence
It’s been about a year since my husband and I decided to move out of our city apartment to travel full-time in a trailer, exploring the country and visiting as many national parks as possible.
5 Portable Grills for All Your Outdoor Cooking Needs | Amy Marturana Winderl | September 2, 2020 | Outside OnlineAfter the changes were implemented, they left them in trailers outside the distribution center to be sorted the following day.
Info About Local Post Office Operations Is Conflicting and Hard to Come By | Ashly McGlone and Kate Nucci | August 27, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoYou can watch the trailer here to check if you’re up for it before streaming the whole thing on Hulu.
Shortly before the pandemic began, the Okoa Project had expanded to Sissala East, where it had hired a team of local engineers and begun building ambulance trailers configured to attach to motorbikes.
A Canadian-born female known as 5Fg, for instance, was the first wolf carried out of the trailers in Yellowstone and set free into the wild in March.
How Yellowstone wolves got their own Ancestry.com page | Susan Milius | July 21, 2020 | Science News
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd there were much wider protests later in 2012 after the anti-Islam movie trailer, “Innocence of Muslims,” appeared on YouTube.
Why the Muslim World Isn’t Flipping Out Over the CIA Torture Report | Dean Obeidallah | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTProduction expenses: equipment rental, lights, lighting board, van rental, trailer rental, road cases, backline.
The crime-fighting penguins, says the trailer, are “masters of the skies, espionage, and aerial assault.”
Lovable ‘Madagascar’ Penguins Are Known to Rape and Torture in Real Life | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then I saw the trailer to Nightcrawler and texted him again and said, “Wow, you inspire me every day.”
Anna Kendrick on Feminism, #GamerGate, and the Celebrity Hacking Attack | Marlow Stern | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a trailer McFann had few equals, and he knew every swale in the prairie and every nook in the mountains on the reservation.
Mystery Ranch | Arthur ChapmanThe midget recovered Alfred's knife from the dust and walked over to the trailer that he noted had a wooden coop of slats aboard.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyI'll have the boys park your machine and trailer right back of our show where it will be safe until you want it.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyThe trailer was unhooked and carefully backed in through a passage laid out by the versatile Fisheye.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. HarneyThe baggage—two trunks, a showman's keyster, two suitcases, a big duffle bag and handbags—was loaded on trailer and backseat.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. Harney
British Dictionary definitions for trailer
/ (ˈtreɪlə) /
a road vehicle, usually two-wheeled, towed by a motor vehicle: used for transporting boats, etc
the part of an articulated lorry that is drawn by the cab
a series of short extracts from a film, used to advertise it in a cinema or on television
a person or thing that trails
US and Canadian a large enclosed vehicle capable of being pulled by a car or lorry and equipped to be lived in: Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): caravan
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