Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Provoked by such incidents, and the prominent display they got almost nightly on TV news last week, more than 40 communities in the U.S. banned Halloween trick-or-treating. "I feel like the Grinch-you know, the one who stole Christmas," said Councilman Paul Sharp of Hammond, La., which enacted a ban. Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy urged parents to substitute Halloween house parties for trick-or-treating, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean signed a law mandating six months in jail for anyone convicted of contaminating Halloween candy, even if no one was harmed...
Much new slang originates with people who have to be in by 8. Junior high and even grade school are unexpectedly productive sources. Sometimes children simply take ordinary words and hold them up to the light at a slightly different angle, an old trick of slang. The ten-year-old will pronounce something "excellent" in the brisk, earnest manner of an Army colonel who has just inspected his regiment. (Primo means the same thing.) The movie E. T. has contributed penis breath, an aggressively weird phrase in perfect harmony with the aggressively weird psyche of the eight-year...
...most Halloweens, warm weather and a full moon would have brought hundreds of Cambridge youngster onto the streets in search of a trick or treat...
...trick or treat" patrols, organized by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci and other city officials after the city council refused to enact an outright trick-or-treating bun, were staffed by Cambridge and Harvard police city teachers, and other volunteers...
...were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least 22 pieces of "Trick" candy appeared around New York City: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Chocolates, apples, and even Coke contained dangerous and nasty surprises...