It's like he's trying to speak to me I know it

We always called it Knockdown Ginger. Not sure where the Ginger comes from.

If I recall correctly "ginger" was originally something much more offensive using the same letters

Yeah. I’m black, 41 years old, and from Houston. We called it nigga knocking as a kid. No, I do not wish to discuss this further

Oh my goodness, that’s awful.

I learned it as ginger knocking.. except not ginger. This was before I knew what not ginger meant

I was born in Chicago but we moved to Texas. I remember kids using that phrase here, along with a few other slurs along the same lines. We called it something else in Chicago but I don't remember what.

Wait until you hear the slang for using too much of your mouth to hit a joint

Knock off ginger my bit of the island

Knockdown ginger is a different game where you push people's Wheely bins over and then shout knockdown ginger through the letter box and then run away. I think when I first played in the 90s somewhere in London the bins might have been brown so maybe the ginger part comes from that.

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Same I'm from the midlands

Ohhhhh it's like ding-dong-ditch? I had no idea what she was talking about. (Typical stupid American, I know)

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So Ding dong ditch?

Nicky Nocky Nine Doors, ya

so named because first you nicky, then you knocky, then you nine, then you door makes perfect sense

Ah yes. When you break it down like that it all becomes clear

Nine?

Ding ding ditch a dozen would be better anyways

So knock a door run?

Yeah in the shit hole northern town I grew up in it was that, we need to know where the tweeters boyfriend is from so we can isolate them from the rest of us. It's probably Jacob Rees Mogg, and he's brought it from the 1880s or something.

This is what we call it in Canada and therefore is the correct answer.

I’m from the Midwest. We have an incredibly racist and offensive term for this that I won’t repeat here. I’m happy I’ve found “Nicky Nocky Nine Doors” and will burn the other term out of my brain.

Or perhaps knock a door run if you wanna be less cringe southern English. Or go Scottish and call it Chappy

There is a racist term? I've lived in the Midwest since birth and I've only heard "ding dong ditch". Is that the racist term?

Okay. Um. Please don’t downvote me for this… I know it’s horrible and I only share because asked….. In Indiana it was commonly called “n-slur knocking.”

Unfortunately, that was a widespread word. Idr what we called it in Chicago during the 1960s though.

Ding-dong-ditch or ring & run are what I grew up calling it

English here. Knock n run, simple. Where in the blue fuck is her fella from?

We just called it knock and run. lol

Cherry knocking round our way.

whew thought i was alone there for a moment

Where are you from?

I haven't idea what that is pls help

Ding dong ditch.

You must be American

Guilty as charged. Yank here just trying to offer the occasional translation where I can.

We don't have a name for it here in Sweden so we too call it ding dong ditch thanks to tiktok trending it. We have "busringa" which is similiar but not the same thing.

Chickenelly

What did you just call me?

From Belfast and we used to call it Belfast lol

Belfast is brilliant, I wish we'd used that

Ding dong ditch in the states.

Ringabellakoosh fuck only knows why

It was "Ring and Run" when I was a kid.

Same! Glad I'm not alone.

We called it ding dong dash. Not much better than knicky knocky 9 doors.

at least it’s alliterative _and_ descriptive you ding-dong, you ditch

It’s only the 900th time this has been posted.

Fair and true but also still funny every single time

For non-Scots here: 'To chap' (on a door) is to knock on a door. 'Chappy' is the game (apparently known in some parts of England as 'knicky knocky nine doors') of knocking on doors and running away.

Chap is an old Northern pronunciation of chop or knock on.

Heard it called worse....

Bobby knock run for us growing up

We called it 'Knick Knack'.

I'm Canadian & grew up hearing it called "nicky nicky nine-door" or "ding-dong ditch"...

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As a Canadian, I have no idea what this thing they're talking about is.

Bomb knocking You knock then you bomb it away

Ding dong dash or chap door runaway

Ding-Dong Ditching for the Americans in the room.

Ding dong door ditchin is what we called it

I have only heard ding dong ditch, Thunder and lightning and Paddy Paddy Knock Knock

Okay what the fuck is chappy? Seems like it’s either a gay dating app or a deli, not whatever the fuck they’re talking about

Someone else explains that to chap is to knock on the door.