Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sports Three goals scored by one player in one game, as in ice hockey.
- n. Sports Three wickets taken in cricket by a bowler in three consecutive balls.
- n. Sports Three consecutive wins or outstanding accomplishments by the same individual, such as a jockey in horse racing.
Wiktionary
- n. cricket Three wickets taken by a bowler in three consecutive balls.
- n. ice hockey Three goals scored by one player in a game, usually followed by a shower of hats onto the ice.
- n. sports, by extension Three achievements in a single game, or similar, such as three consecutive wins.
- n. baseball, sarcastic Striking out three times in one game.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
Etymologies
- c.1877, originally from cricket, meaning taking three wickets with three consecutive bowls. This extended to other sports. Allegedly because it entitled the bowler to receive a hat from his club, or perhaps it entitled him to pass the hat for a cash collection. (Wiktionary)
- From the hat with which the feat was traditionally rewarded in cricket. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is somewhat of a literary hat trick for me: As a nine-year-old boy, I received my first rejection letter from Rod Serling; years later, as a young cub reporter, I witnessed the first burgeoning seeds of the Watergate scandal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hat trick’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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UK Realia
Shoo!, Holly, Pixie, Mr Paws, Shandy, Snowy, Tibbles, Tufty, bull terrier, cocker spaniel, Irish setter, Yorkshire terrier and 1132 more...
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hatly matters
manners of hat - some vague, many trite, some not
drop of a hat, talk through (one..., take off (ones) hat, throw in hat, under (ones) hat, hat in hand, hats off, chit-chat, crosshatch, all hat and no ca..., cat in the hat co..., pass the hat around and 52 more...
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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
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H is for Hat Trick
My H Words
holy guacamole, hee-haw, hanky panky, halcyon, hamburglar, har-de-har, hardscrabble, harlot, harpy, hat trick, haymaker, heartbreak hotel and 85 more...
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