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cabbage night

n. (context around New York City Connecticut Rhode Island Massachusetts and especially upstate New York and Vermont English) A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.

Usage examples of "cabbage night".

If it wasn't how to burgle the First National, it was, how to build catapults, or shape black bumbershoots into lurking bat costumes for Cabbage Night.