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fifth wheel
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fifth wheel
Fig. an unwelcome or extra person. I don't like living with my son and daughter-in-law. I feel like a fifth wheel. Bill always begs to come on camping trips with us, but really, he's a fifth wheel.
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In the new setup, fifth-wheel trailers are able to back up to one side of the doorway.
During the shoot, Levinson slouched before a video console 20 feet above Hjelte Sports Center, where baseball diamonds shared space with a flotilla of movie big rigs, fifth-wheel trailers and catering trucks just south of the Encino-Balboa golf courses.
Hitch-mounted trailers and even gooseneck and fifth-wheel trailers follow the vehicle path much more closely than with conventional two-wheel steering.
 
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