Cabbage Night

Meaning

Proper Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• see list in Mischief Night

Origin

• 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.