"Cabbage Night" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Cabbage Nights [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s|head=Cabbage Night}} Cabbage Night (plural Cabbage Nights)
  1. (around New York City, Northern New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and especially upstate New York and Vermont) 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. Wikipedia link: Mischief Night Tags: New-Jersey, Northern Synonyms: list in Mischief Night
    Sense id: en-Cabbage_Night-en-name-mFZ73UbU Categories (other): Connecticut English, New York City English, Rhode Island English

Inflected forms

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