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  • noun US A trailer measuring twenty feet or more in width and ninety feet or less in length, towed as a two separate units before assembly.

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Examples

  • And on Wednesday, a ragged six-foot-tall guy in shorts with his shirttail out—Sacca—would go to some double-wide trailer where the development people worked.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • He was the size of a double-wide trailer, as strong as a cart ox, and he worked like a team of draft horses.

    Michael Simzak: The Men I Served With and the Sports They Loved Michael Simzak 2011

  • And on Wednesday, a ragged six-foot-tall guy in shorts with his shirttail out—Sacca—would go to some double-wide trailer where the development people worked.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Beyond the farm-equipment boneyard sat a quasi-neighborhood of double-wide trailers, all slate green and dank gray-white, sidled up to their driveways close to the road.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • Eddie, get back in the double-wide, your crystal meth is getting overcooked.

    Fey likely to revive Palin impersonation 2010

  • Beyond the farm-equipment boneyard sat a quasi-neighborhood of double-wide trailers, all slate green and dank gray-white, sidled up to their driveways close to the road.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • Ganado was my first high school, a series of double-wide trailers in the desert.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Ganado was my first high school, a series of double-wide trailers in the desert.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • In southern packs, it usually means parking a number of double-wide trailers on a farm.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • With several weeks of moving into their double-wide trailer, they say they began experiencing health problems, including bloody noses, rashes, nausea and abdominal pain.

    Ex-CIA staffer alleges agency coverup in toxin exposure case Jeff Stein 2011

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