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hat trick
[ hat trik ]
noun
- Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- cricket the achievement of a bowler in taking three wickets with three successive balls
- any achievement of three points, victories, awards, etc within a given period, esp three goals scored by the same player in a soccer match
hat trick
- 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.”
Notes
Word History and Origins
Origin of hat trick1
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.Example Sentences
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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