Cabbage Night

Etymology

 * 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.

Proper noun

 * 1)  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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