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  • She and Ginny drew a schematic of how they'd move the dining table to the outside deck, so the dining room could be a dance floor, and cover the table with an oilcloth for use as the lantern carving station; put a tub of water for apple-bobbing on the upstairs deck; and make a hideout for Dinah in the storage room for the night of the party.

    GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • V2O nightclub in Long Beach has been holding a "Spring Break Breast Augmentation Contest Series" where six finalists go head-to-head in an apple-bobbing battle royal dubbed "Bobbing for Boobs."

    Giulia Rozzi: What a Bunch of Boobs 2008

  • He sees people dipping frantically, it could be apple-bobbing in Indiana, only slightly violent.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He sees people dipping frantically, it could be apple-bobbing in Indiana, only slightly violent.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He sees people dipping frantically, it could be apple-bobbing in Indiana, only slightly violent.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then back to the parish hall for games apple-bobbing and buns-on-a-string, all the traditional things and party food.

    Traditional Hallowe'en Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Weevil has organized an apple-bobbing competition.

    Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003

  • I asked, feeling my legs almost gave way beneath me, “I promised to take him to the apple-bobbing contest, I promised—”

    Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988

  • I asked, feeling my legs almost gave way beneath me, “I promised to take him to the apple-bobbing contest, I promised—”

    Fallen Hearts V.C. ANDREWS 1988

  • The Hilton House indulged in an old-fashioned country Hallowe'en, with a spelling match, dancing to "Roger de Coverley" and "Money Musk," apple-bobbing and all the other traditional methods of finding out about your lover on All

    Betty Wales, Sophomore Margaret Warde

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