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hat trick

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hat trick
n. Sports
1. Three goals scored by one player in one game, as in ice hockey.
2. Three wickets taken in cricket by a bowler in three consecutive balls.
3. Three consecutive wins or outstanding accomplishments by the same individual, such as a jockey in horse racing.

[From the hat with which the feat was traditionally rewarded in cricket.]

hat trick
n
1. (Team Sports / Cricket) Cricket the achievement of a bowler in taking three wickets with three successive balls
2. any achievement of three successive points, victories, etc.
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Noun1.hat trick - (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
score - the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
hockey game, ice hockey, hockey - a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
cricket - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
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hat trick
nHattrick m; to score a hat trickeinen Hattrick erzielen; with two husbands already behind her she looks like making it a hat tricknachdem sie nun schon zweimal geschieden ist, denkt sie wohl, aller guten Dinge sind drei
hat trick n (Brit) (Sport) (also) (fig) → tripletta
hat trick n (Brit) (Sport) (also) (fig) → tripletta


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