trailer

A short video showing parts of a film, game, or programme to make people interested.

• Have you seen the new trailer?
• The film trailer made me laugh.
• They released a trailer for the game yesterday.

How to use it: trailer for something (We watched the trailer for the new film.)

Similar words: preview, teaser

Common phrases: movie trailer, watch a trailer, trailer for something

A vehicle without an engine pulled behind a car or truck to carry things.

• The truck pulled a heavy trailer.
• We loaded the furniture onto a trailer.
• Is the trailer securely attached to the car?

Common phrases: tow a trailer, trailer hitch, boat trailer

A home on wheels pulled by another vehicle and used for staying in while travelling.

• We slept in our trailer by the lake.
• They towed a small trailer across the country.
• Does the trailer have a shower?

Similar words: caravan, camper

Common phrases: travel trailer, camping trailer, stay in a trailer

A factory-built home that can be moved but usually stays permanently in one place.

• They live in a trailer near town.
• Their trailer has a small porch.
• Several families moved into the new trailer park.

Similar words: mobile home

Common phrases: trailer park, live in a trailer, trailer home

A person or thing that follows behind another.

• The last trailer struggled to keep pace.
• The leader waited for the trailers to catch up.
• A slow trailer followed the group across the field.

Similar words: follower

Opposites: leader

Common phrases: last trailer, slow trailer

A part that sticks out from the main body of something and trails behind or downward.

• A long trailer hung from the plant.
• She trimmed the trailers along the edge of the pot.
• The plant grew a new trailer over the wall.

Similar words: trailing part

Common phrases: plant trailer, long trailer

To carry a vehicle or other large object on a vehicle pulled behind a car or truck.

• We trailered the boat to the lake.
• They had to trailer the broken car home.
• Can you trailer this equipment to the farm?

Similar words: transport, haul

Common phrases: trailer a boat, trailer a car, trailer something home