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   trick or treat

   exclamation

   • 1. said by children to ask for sweets when calling at someone's home at Halloween, typically in costume: "a steady stream of little ghouls chiming, ‘Trick or treat!’"

   verb

   • 1. go from door to door at Halloween asking for sweets with the exclamation ‘trick or treat’: "kids are going to go trick-or-treating tomorrow night"

   Word Origin 1920s (first recorded in Canada): with reference to the practice of children playing pranks on people who do not give them anything when they call at Halloween.

   Derivatives

   • 1. trick-or-treater noun

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