trick or treat

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

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Questions about trick or treat

What does trick or treat mean?

trick or treat means "a request by children on Halloween; they pass from door to door asking for goodies and threatening to play tricks on those who refuse".

Is trick or treat a common word?

trick or treat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.