trunk or treat

English

Noun

trunk or treat (uncountable)

1. (US) An organized alternative to trick-or-treating where candy is handed out to children from cars in a parking lot.

Verb

trunk or treat (third-person singular simple present trunk or treats, present participle trunk or treating, simple past and past participle trunk or treated)

1. (US) To participate in a trunk or treat event as a child.
   • 2017, Cynthia Staton, Life Lived Not Lost: A Journey of Hope, Morgan James Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:

     Immediately Victoria took off her headband that had a witch's hat on it and gave it to the girl. “Now you are a proper witch,” she said. The girl smiled and went out trunk or treating.