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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:Ding dong ditchWikipedia WOTD – 26 January 2011

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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ding-dong ditch (uncountable)

1. (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. Synonyms: knick-knock, nigger knocking

Translations

[edit] ringing someone's door bell and running away

Dutch: belletje trekken, belletje lellen French: sonne-décrisse m (Quebec) German: Klingelmännchen n, Klingelstreich (de) m, Klingelputzen (de) n, Klingelpost f Japanese: ピンポンダッシュ (pin-pon dasshu) Korean: 벨튀 (beltwi) Norwegian: ring-på-spring, ring-på-stikk-av Russian: стучать и убегать (stučatʹ i ubegatʹ) Spanish: rin rin raje, rin rin corre corre

Verb

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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. (ambitransitive) To perform such a prank.

Synonyms

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• knock-knock ginger (UK)
• nicky-nicky-nine-doors / knicky-knocky-nine-doors (Canada)
• A full list of other names for this prank can be found at Knock, Knock, Ginger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

[edit] to perform such a prank

German: einen Klingelstreich spielen Japanese: ピンポンダッシュする (pinpon dasshu suru) Korean: 벨튀하다 (beltwihada)

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