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Cabbage Night

Cabbage Night proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Cabbage Night (plural Cabbage Nights)

  1. (New-Jersey, Northern, around New York City, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts) 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.
    Synonyms:
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Synonyms of Cabbage Night

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Forms of Cabbage Night

pluralCabbage Nights

Origin of Cabbage Night

* Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night. * Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.

Questions about Cabbage Night

What does Cabbage Night mean?
Cabbage Night means 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.
What part of speech is Cabbage Night?
Cabbage Night is a proper noun.

Words near Cabbage Night in the dictionary

  1. cabbage lettuces
  2. cabbage looper
  3. cabbage loopers
  4. cabbage moth
  5. cabbage moths
  6. Cabbage Night
  7. Cabbage Nights
  8. cabbage on a stick
  9. cabbage palm
  10. cabbage palmetto
  11. cabbage palmettos

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