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trick or treat

 verb
     
trick or treat
1

go trick or treating

DG if children go trick or treating, they dress in costumes and go from house to house on Halloween saying 'trick or treat' in order to get sweets
2 the words that children say when they go trick or treating, to say that they will play a trick on someone if they are not given a treat (=sweet)
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