hat trick
(Sports) series of three successive wins; three goals scored by the same player in one game (Soccer; Ice hockey); three wickets taken by a one player in three successive balls (Cricket)
Hat Trick
Hat-trick
A hat-trick in
sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. In North America it is often rendered as hat trick, with no
hyphen. (The
Oxford English Dictionary has it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)
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hat trick
Noun
1. (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
(hypernym) score
(classification) cricket
hat trick
one player scoring three goals in one hockey game Brad scored a hat trick in the game against the Blades.
hat trick
= hat trick.
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