(US, Canada) A children's prank in which a doorbell of a home is rung, and then the pranksters run or cycle away before the occupants of the home open the door.
(US, Canada) A children's prank in which a doorbell of a home is rung, and then the pranksters run or cycle away before the occupants of the home open the door.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(US, slang, offensive, dated) Ding-dong ditch.
One of several sounds that might be made by a bell.
Ding-dong cart is a cheerfully retro Massachusetts term for an ice cream truck — the slow-rolling vehicle that cruises residential streets in summer, broadcasting its jingle to lure children outside with change in their fists. The name perfectly captures the auditory experience of the truck's bell or chimes clanging down the street. Outside of its home region the phrase is largely unknown, but it is warmly nostalgic for those who grew up chasing the ding-dong cart on hot afternoons.
(UK) The prank of knocking on somebody's front door and running away before it is opened.
(ambitransitive) To perform such a prank.