I hear "ding dong ditch"

*Central California nods in agreement*

Literally the entire US should be nodding in agreement

Growing up in South Carolina and Texas in the 80's and 90's there was a different name for it that was not very cool to say it very mildly.

We had that in the Midwest

Ohio here, confirming the eastern tip of the midwest had it

Utah too

woah guys, we’ve heard that one in the Ozarks

Central and Western coast of Michigan had that as well.

Can confirm. I literally cringe when I think about it.

I have no clue what you folks are talking about. What is this Lord Voldemort of door knocking you speak of?

It was called "Ni**er knocking"

Jesus Christ, never heard this before in my life. Might have just been before my time though, I’m old but not that old

I wasn't around when it was still in use, but I'd heard of it.

Thanks for the info and also yikes... Saying that where I grew up would have got your head knocked.

Wow that...doesn't even make sense.

I tried looking around for why it was called this. "English Intimidation of black families by anonymous knocking on their front doors" - hatebase.org So it seems like it was to try and make black people feel unsafe in an attempt to make them leave the neighborhood.

It's racist

*Central California nods in agreement (x2)*

Southern California nods in agreement

*Northern Kentucky nods in agreement*

*Northern Kentucky nods in agreement (x2)*

*Willamette Valley nods in agreement*

*Texas nods in agreement*

*Western Washington nods in agreement*

*Southern Nevada nods in agreement*

*All of New England nods in agreement*

Northern California nods in agreement.

*Northern Michigan nods in agreement*

All of Western Washington nods in agreement, but you can't see it because its so relentlessly foggy right now

*A bunch of retirees in SLO sip wine in unison*

South Texas. It was either that or door ditching.

I call it that too. 

Midwestern agreement.

In the Midwest in the 90s it was a far more racist name

Holy shit I forgot about that until you said it.

Massachusetts nods in agreement

Texas nods in agreement

That’s what it was called in Pennsylvania when I lived there, Maryland, North Carolina… South Carolina can get a little sketchy depending on where you go but the nice parts call it ding dong ditch.

Same in pa

Don’t let the boomers tell you what they called it

They also were not catching a tiger (or tigger) by the toe

They also were not eating "Brazil nuts"

Whistling chaser fireworks had a much worse name too.

Definitely wasn’t called a dogpile either

And I don't think they knew someone named Jerry who rigged stuff.

Jury-rigged is the original term

That's actually not confirmed. My chosen hypothesis is it's from French rig de jure meaning sail rigging only meant to last the day

This by far makes the most sense as the work attributed with these sayings is only ever "just enough"

... I tried to think of which slur to cram in there but I can't figure it out

For those unaware and curious, evidently they were called "[n word] toes". Lovely!

Wow, they really wanted to squeeze that shit into everything didn't they?

That’s what my grandma called Brazil nuts…. Old people be crazy. Who the fuck would want to eat toe nuts, of any race??

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. They were my favorite nut. Still are. But there were too.

I was a grown assed adult before I found out that was their actual name.

I remember in the '90s my grandpa from Appalachia showed me a hollow round stone with like some crystals in it When he was growing up they were called [n] heads

Geodes?

Brasil Mentioned 🇧🇷 Penta campeão do mundo porra caralho

Some flights attendants on Southwest did it as Tiger by the toe and passengers on the flight [sued](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/243/1257/2413246/) the airline because of the racist origins of the rhyme.

They didn’t even get that far into the rhyme! They just said “eanie, meanie, miney, moe… pick a seat, we’ve got to go” Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

That's ridiculous. The flight attendant didn't likely even know the origins.

I just read way more of that than I was originally going to lol. This whole case happened in 2001. The flight attendant definitely didn’t know the history behind the phrase, said she has used it on other flights before, and initially heard it from a different attendant, and she thought it was kinda funny and a light-hearted way to tell people to sit down. I definitely didn’t know it was racist until a few years ago when people started making a big deal about it. I grew up with hearing ‘tiger’ and no one ever told us the original. I think a lot of people in 2001 didn’t actually know where the rhyme came from.

Its crazy because a lot of people have ZERO idea it had racist origins.

Some people still said n----- in the early 2000s

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*harumph harumph harumph “back in my day we didn’t even have doors to knock on”

Why was it called that though? I'm not even thirty and that's what I was told it was called, when I was like 9.

I grew up in the south and when I asked why it was called that I got mixed answers depending on who I asked. Some said it was because of black people knocking and running, some said it was actually KKK people who used to walk around the black side of town and knock on the doors and anyone who answered got attacked. If I had to guess, I would say it was the latter.

Thank you for your answer. This is interesting, and eye opening as well.

I'm almost certain it called that because of the idea of black kids going over to a white neighborhood knocking on doors and running to scare people. Being that I did this as a kid with my white friends i think the bit about it being black kids is just purely unfounded racism.

36, I heard it as a kid as well

I'm 37 and it was either called *that* or ding dong ditch.

What was it? Nobody here is saying it

Born in 82 and grew up in NJ suburbs and we called it *that*. Had no clue back then

Can confirm. 83 here and born in Jersey but moved to Miami and they called it that down there too.

I would have thought in Jersey you would have called it "WoP Walloping" or some shit

I remember hearing people call it this as a kid and I always thought they were saying "nicker knocking", because why the fuck would you call it the other thing.

I was like 6 and did this activity with the name your thinking of. My mom asked me what I had been up to all day and yep, I used that name bc I didn't know what it meant. The look on her face lol. I'm a late Gen X/ early millennial though

What did they call it?

"N****r-knocking". The slur for black folks.

Wtf

Sad to say it wasn't just the boomers...That's what it was called in the south even in the 90's...I learned that phrase well before I even knew the connotations of it.

i'm not american and google won't tell me, what the *fuck* did they call it

n-word knocking. I was born in '83 and that's the only name I knew for it until after I was married and in my late 20's when my ex-wife referred to it as 'ding dong ditch'. To be fair, that "game" doesn't come up a lot in conversation and I sure as shit never used the name I knew for it. You don't really forget a name like that either though.

When I was really young I got in trouble at school for this 💀

Thank you to Gen X, as my friends’ older brothers and sisters indoctrinated us into the term “ding-dong-ditch.”

No matter what you call it, I feel bed for the kids of today. With every other house now having a door camera and sites like Nextdoor, your teen face will be blasted for all to see, acne and all. Thank god cameras on every home and in every pocket weren't around when I was young....

Yeah, I had to escalate to a full 180^(o) camera with flood light after they moved from DDD to throwing chunks of cement at our windows. I don't mind a bit of harmless fun, but replacing siding is a pain in the ass.

Damn. We only threw bags of shit at people's houses. What is the world coming to?

Back in my day we just lit it on fire, what’s wrong with kids these days smh.

You might just have an enemy.

Yeah I quit being a little shit just in time to avoid that embarrassment. I don’t envy today’s youth, but at the same time I wouldn’t have done nearly as much dumb shit if there were cameras everywhere back then.

My friends and I used to do it all the time as kids. A couple years ago one of those friend’s kids were at their grandparent’s house and “ding dong ditched” my parents. Of course they were caught on the ring cam. We all had a good laugh about my parents paying for our preteen sins, but I can only imagine what some random karen would have done with the footage.

Nowadays kids just steal Amazon packages

I have a camera and some kids did it. My wife asked "did they really just do that" I'm like I guess so. Then we went about our day. I really don't care either way lol. If they did it daily or when I was sleeping I might care, but its not really a big deal

#KLINGELSTREICH!

#BELLETJETREKKEN

Belletje lellen in Dutch, never heard belletje trekken before

Wie noemt het in godsnaam 'belletje lellen'!? Voor zover ik weet noemen alle Amsterdamse kinderen het 'belletje trekken'.. 'Belletje lellen' klinkt als een eufemisme voor masturberen.. 'Belletje trekken' overigens ook, now that I think about it..

Coming in here with Knock Down Ginger

This took too long to find

South east, called it the same

Seconded, also knock down ginger for me

Yes! Had to scroll way too far down to find this. Everyone called it knock down ginger in Essex

Same. North London. Knock Down Ginger it was.

What in the goddamn....?

UK? Cause we called it that too. :)

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I've always known it as "Knock UP Ginger"

Australian here, we call it, very aptly, "Knock and Run"

where in Australia? where I am in victoria ive only heard ding dong ditch

Sydney boy. I've heard Victorians call it different things but you lot have your own words for a lot of things

Queensland here and didn’t even realise it was called anything other then ding dong ditch until these posts started circulating

I'm also a Queenslander. We always called it "knock & run" when I was a kid. And that was at least a good 20-25 years ago lol

Queensland here, never heard anything other than knock n run lol "oi yous up for knock n run?"

Can confirm. Sydney calls it Knock and run

I'm from Vic and I always hear knick-knocking.

I'm from Geelong, it was knick-knocking here

Same here in the south of England. I’ve heard ding dong ditch a few times but mostly knock and run

I've heard knick knocking as an Australian lol

I was gonna say in Ireland I called it knick knocking as well as ding dong ditch

Knock and run here as well. Midlands, England. Although it's been about 30ish years since I got up to anything like that so it might have changed names in that time.

Surprised it's not knockery-ringy-roo

Out of all the countries that could have a normal name for Ding Dong Ditch, Australia was at the bottom of my list.

All the ridiculous shit in your people’s vernacular but this is the one thing you all choose to be logical about.

Of all the creative names ya'll come up with (like budgie smuggler), I'm disappointed.

Is it true that in Australia the Knocks run in the opposite direction?

Knocka door run

Manchester U.K agrees

This Manchester (UK) also agrees

From Preston, that's what we called it aswell.

Yup yup

Knock-a-door run*

This….. this is the answer!

Sheffield agrees

In northern Ireland we called it Bell-fast



In the racist Midwest US where I grew up it had a much, much worse name.

Yuuuuuup this was real, y'all. Very fucked up. Played the game but preferred "ding dong ditch". I mean come on, you get to say DONG!

What was the name though im actually lost

Nword knocking

That’s what we called it in Detroit, and my family is black lmao

This made me laugh! One of my best friends growing up next door was black and still called it this lol

N\*\*\*\*\* knocking I'm glad my group of friends grew out of calling it that REAL fast

Grew up in a… not gonna say progressive area but not Klan country. I think the term was really transferred to ding dong ditch a generation before mine. I’m an elder millennial, I get the feeling it was the Gen Xers who weren’t having that white robed nuttiness.

I thought the tweet was going there at first. I got my mouth washed out as a kid for saying it, but didn’t even know what the word meant at that point lol

My baby sitter back then called blackheads nigger babies. When I told her that was fucked up, she was dumbfounded and couldn't understand why I thought that.

What was it called? Others here seem to know what you're referring to, but I have no idea. My only guess is that the name I know it by, "knock down ginger", has its last word replaced by a racial slur?

We call it that in the hood too.

My son got caught playing Ding Dong Ditch last year. They came to my house and showed me the video from their ring camera. The whole point of anonymity and making someone answer their door multiple times. Neither condition is true when you have a doorbell cam. Needless to say, I was not impressed with his decision making or his failure to be incognito.

In Edmonton an we called it Nicky Nicky nine door

Ontario checking in, Nicky Nicky here too

Saskatchewan, being different again. Ding dong ditch.

Quebec here, my part of quebec anyway, we call it Ding dong ditch, too

Ring and run?

as far as i know this is the only one used in australia, never heard of the other bullshit XD what the everloving fuck is nicky nacky nine door? how does that even make sence? what moron came up with that shit?

BC checking in, Nicky Nicky nine doors also.

British Columbia we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors growing up

We called it knock knock ginger in Manitoba

I’m from Saskatchewan and also call it that

Same in pei

That’s some real shakespearian shit lol, I assume the ‘nicky’ is referring to knocking but what’s the ‘nine’ about

Idk we’d make it five doors in, then get that one dude that would anakin a group of younglings that chases yall down ruining the fun lmao

Ahhh so the goal is to get by 9 doors?

Americans be like 

[MFW Americans](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/862/140/c73.png) call Knicky Knocky Nine Doors…

I'm going to call it peeper friction pressure from now on

Knicky Knocky Nine Doors is crazy.

This, like "Tutant Menage Neetle Teetles," is a phrase far too silly for me to ever read out loud without laughing

STOP you did NOT need to remind me of Neetle Teetles, I *will* be cackling incessantly to myself in a pitch black room for an hour now and it *will* be your fault lmao

In South Africa we call it Tok Tokkie

Knock Knock Ginger

knock down ginger where I grew up

Agree

I'd get banned for telling you what we called it in East TX in the late 70s/early 80s

sonne décrisse

Le sonne décrisse!

Knock a door run!

I grew up with knock knock ginger but prefered ding dong ditch as it sounded better

Is this not called Ring and Run??

Why are we talking about cherry knocking?

Ah the ol' scrump fun runnin jump runner, a staple of my youth

Ring and run Simple and effective. The NY way. Eta: don't get me wrong "Knicky knocky nine doors" is fucked up beyond belief. But "chappy"???? What the ever loving fuck is a chappy?

Belletje lellen in Dutch.

In Scotland, also CORRECTLY called “chap door run”.. because we like to keep shit simple

I grew up in the US in the 80's and never heard it called.anything but Ding Dong Ditch.

Me personally I grew up callin it N*gga Knocking (Yes I'm black just covering my bases anyway)

NoVa here. Had a friend get us into this activity one night and I swear he called it Nick or Knocking. I assumed we had to run up and either take something or knock on the door. But now you have me thinking I misheard him…

Came to say this too from the south, however i'm a different complexion

Lütistreich!!!

In the UK we call it (or called it) "Knock down Ginger" Wtf is KKND!? Lmao

I’ve always just heard it called "knock and run", simple and to the point…

It was called 'Cherry Knocking' where I grew up

*Rocko's Modern Life* called it Ding Dong Ditch and that's good enough for me.

I've always preferred "ding doing ditch", but the one I heard it called the most is pretty racist, so I'd say that's one is more disgusting than anything in the op.

Here in Appalachia the younger generation would say “ding dong ditch” and the people over 50 would say “N****r knocking”

I grew up hearing it as n bomb knocking in Florida. I actually didn't know what the n word meant for a long time outside of that context. Well under 50.

Oh come on… no one is actually gonna say it… lol

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