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Trick Or Treat

Definition: Trick Or Treat

Trick Or Treat

Noun

1. A request by children on Halloween; they pass from door to door asking for goodies and threatening to play tricks on those who refuse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Trick Or Treat

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Whoa, trick or treat. What's going on? (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

Trick or treat. (Ransom!; writing credit: Cyril Hume ; Richard Maibaum)

Movie/TV Titles

Trick or Treat (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Trick or Treat

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Trick or Treat is a Disney cartoon made in 1952 starring Donald Duck. In this cartoon Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to shame Donald into giving them candy with the help of Witch Hazel in her first appearance. The comic book adaptation introduced a character named Smorgie the Bad but he only appeared in recent reprints of the story.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trick or Treat."

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Commercial Usage: Trick Or Treat

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Books

  • Picture Me Having Trick Or Treat Fun (reference)

  • Sheep Trick or Treat (reference)

  • The Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat (First Time Books) (reference)

  • Trick or Treat, Great Pumpkin (Peanuts Interactive Books) (reference)

  • Zeena's Cat: Trick or Treat Book (Barkan, Joanne. Trick-Or Treat Book.) (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trick Or Treat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trick or treat

263

trick or treat bag

2

halloween trick or treat

2
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Modern Translation: Trick Or Treat

Language Translations for "trick or treat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

детская игра 'кошелек или жизнь'. (various references)

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Anagrams: Trick Or Treat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-k-o-r-r-r-t-t-t"

-3 letters: carrotier, keratotic, retractor, trattorie.

-4 letters: croakier, retroact, titrator.

-5 letters: attrite, carrier, cattier, cirrate, citator, citrate, corkier, cottier, creator, critter, croaker, erotica, erratic, ketotic, rattier, reactor, retrack, retract, ricotta, rockier, tackier, tarrier, tattier, titrate, tracker, tractor, traitor, tricker, trotter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow 		5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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