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hat trick

[ hat trik ]

noun

  1. Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches.
  2. Ice Hockey, Soccer. three goals scored by one player in one game:

    He was the only athlete in our school’s history to achieve a hat trick in both hockey and soccer.

  3. Baseball. three like feats executed by one player in one game, especially three home runs:

    In last night’s game, Marley performed a most unusual hat trick, with his three unassisted double plays.

  4. a series of three related successes or accomplishments, especially when achieved one after the other and in close proximity:

    Once again, Kay won the blue ribbons for dill pickles, bread-and-butter pickles, and pickled beets—her annual pickle hat trick!



hat-trick

noun

  1. cricket the achievement of a bowler in taking three wickets with three successive balls
  2. any achievement of three points, victories, awards, etc within a given period, esp three goals scored by the same player in a soccer match
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


hat trick

  1. In some sports, such as ice hockey, three goals by one player in a single game: “Lemieux scores for the third time tonight; he finally has the hat trick he's been looking for all season.”


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Notes

The phrase originally referred to a hat traditionally given to a cricket player who scored three wickets, or goals.
By extension, a hat trick is an outstanding performance by an individual, or a particularly clever or adroit maneuver: “She pulled off a hat trick with her presentation to the committee.”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hat trick1

First recorded in 1865–70; so called because formerly such a cricket bowler was rewarded with a hat
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Idioms and Phrases

An extremely clever or adroit maneuver, as in It looked as though the party was going to achieve a hat trick in this election . The term originated in cricket, where it refers to three wickets taken by a bowler in three consecutive balls, traditionally rewarded with the presentation of a hat. It later was transferred to ice hockey, soccer, and baseball, where it denotes three consecutive successes (goals, hits), and then to more general use.
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Example Sentences

Oshie provided one of the greatest moments of the regular season that same night, recording a hat trick in his first game since his dad died.

He wiped away tears as he sat down, an emotional moment that came after Oshie completed a hat trick in his first game since the death of his father.

Oshie, who missed Monday’s contretemps to be with his family, notched a hat trick to lift the Capitals to a 4-2 win in a game that saw an astounding 100 penalty minutes handed out in the first period alone and 141 total.

Never before in the Bundesliga’s 57-year history had an American recorded a hat trick.

Rossi scored all three goals — a hat trick — as the Azzurri beat Brazil, 3-2, sending the soccer-crazy fans in the South American nation into shock and mourning.

In 2010, she scored an Oscar hat-trick with The Young Victoria.

The "double hat-trick" was six consecutive wickets, the last six, all clean bowled.

Upon a similar wicket had he not done the famous hat-trick only three weeks before?

It played the "hat trick" with the gentility of modern manners.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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