trunk or treat

noun

An organized alternative to trick-or-treating where candy is handed out to children from cars in a parking lot.

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Meanings

nountrunk or treat (uncountable)
  1. USuncountableAn organized alternative to trick-or-treating where candy is handed out to children from cars in a parking lot.
verbtrunk or treat (third-person singular simple present trunk or treats, present participle trunk or treating, simple past and past participle trunk or treated)

present singular third person trunk or treats · participle present trunk or treating · participle past trunk or treated · past trunk or treated

  1. USintransitiveTo participate in a trunk or treat event as a child.

    Immediately Victoria took off her headband that had a witch's hat on it and gave it to the girl. “Now you are a proper witch,” she said. The girl smiled and went out trunk or treating.

    2017, Cynthia Staton, Life Lived Not Lost: A Journey of Hope, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 69
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