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trick-or-treater

trick-or-treater noun: one who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.

Noun

trick-or-treater (plural trick-or-treaters)

  1. One who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.
    • Those darn trick-or-treaters egged my car.

Forms of trick-or-treater

pluraltrick-
plural-treaters

Origin of trick-or-treater

From trick-or-treat + -er.

Questions about trick-or-treater

What does trick-or-treater mean?
Trick-or-treater means one who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.
What part of speech is trick-or-treater?
Trick-or-treater is a noun.
What is the plural of trick-or-treater?
The plural of trick-or-treater is trick-.

Words near trick-or-treater in the dictionary

  1. trick up one's sleeve
  2. trick wig
  3. trick wigs
  4. trick-or-treat
  5. trick-or-treated
  6. trick-or-treater
  7. trick-or-treaters
  8. trick-or-treating
  9. trick-or-treats
  10. trickable
  11. trickdom

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