ding-dong ditch

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

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

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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.

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.

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