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語源

(This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the 語源 scriptorium.) So called because the Gates of Hell supposedly opened up the night before Halloween, which would allow demons to wander towns and cause mischief. In some areas, the name refers to the mischief of lifting residential gates off their hinges and either exchanging them with other people's gates, or placing them in awkward places such as suspended in trees.

固有名詞

Gate Night (複数形 Gate Nights)

1. (around New York City, Connecticut, Winnipeg, Rhode Island) 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.

同意語

• see list in Mischief Night

参照

• The Dialect Survey