Meaning & use
trick or treat
A Halloween custom in which children go door to door asking for candy, often threatening a harmless trick otherwise.
See it in a sentence
Every October 31st, kids in costumes go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.
We handed out chocolate to every child who came to the door saying trick or treat.
A note on using this word
The phrase works both as the children's greeting and, as trick-or-treating, as the verb form of the activity.
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