Canada, we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors.
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Canadian here. We used both “Knicky knocky nine doors” and “ding dong ditch,” but if I remember correctly, the first was more prevalent, and definitely is the first thing that comes to mind for me personally.
Oh, and I’m a middle millennial.
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Ireland : knockadolly
Knocky door run is what me and my friends called it (north east England)
Why not ring and run? Or ding and dash?
How do people get such dumb colloquialisms to stick?
Ohhhhhh, that makes more sense, I always heard, "Nicky-nicky nine doors"
A door prank?
Nobody else called it Knock-Knock Zoom-Zoom???
I’ve heard of most of the ones mentioned in the comments, but this one is new to me (Western U.S.).
Schellabemberles would be the Swabian name