ding-dong ditch

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Alternative forms

• ding dong ditch
• ding-dong-ditch
• ding-dong-ditch-it
• Ding Dong Ditch

Etymology

ding-dong (“sound made by a bell”) + ditch (“to abandon”)

Noun

ding-dong ditch (plural ding-dong ditches)

1. (US, Canada) A children's prank in which a doorbell of a house is rung, and then the pranksters run away before the occupants of the house open the door.

Verb

ding-dong ditch (third-person singular simple present ding-dong ditches, present participle ding-dong ditching, simple past and past participle ding-dong ditched)

1. To perform this prank.

Synonyms

• knock-knock ginger (UK)
• A full list of other names for this prank can be found at Knock, Knock, Ginger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Knock, Knock, Ginger

Translations

ringing someone's door bell and running away

• Dutch: belletje trekken (nl), belletje lellen (nl)
• German: Klingelmännchen (de) n, Klingelstreich (de) m, Klingelputzen (de) n, Klingelpost (de) f

• Spanish: rin rin raje (es) , rin rin corre corre (es)