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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hat tricknoun

    (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)

Wiktionary

  1. hat tricknoun

    Three wickets taken by a bowler in three consecutive balls.

  2. hat tricknoun

    Three goals scored by one player in a game, usually followed by a shower of hats onto the ice.

  3. hat tricknoun

    Three achievements in a single game, or similar, such as three consecutive wins.

  4. hat tricknoun

    Striking out three times in one game.

  5. Etymology: 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.

Wikipedia

  1. hat trick

    A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.

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  1. hat trick

    A hat trick is a sports term, typically referring to a single player achieving three successes or accomplishments in a single game or match. The exact nature of these achievements can vary based on the sport. For instance, in soccer and hockey, a hat trick refers to scoring three goals; while in cricket, it refers to a bowler taking three wickets with consecutive deliveries. The term originates from cricket where a bowler was traditionally awarded a hat for accomplishing this feat.

Wikidata

  1. Hat Trick

    Hat Trick is the third original studio album by American folk rock trio America, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1973. The album was a modest hit in the US, peaking at 28 on the Billboard album chart, although it failed to go gold, whereas the group's first two releases had platinum sales. It produced one minor hit single, "Muskrat Love" which reached 67 on the Billboard singles chart and 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The title track is the only song written by all three members of America.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hat trick in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hat trick in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of hat trick in a Sentence

  1. Fionn Dally:

    We're hoping for a hat-trick. We passed marriage equality, legalized abortion, and now we're hoping for separation of church and state.

  2. Billy Foster:

    I guess they'll all be scrambling to play with Lee on Sunday, he's on a hat-trick on the' Westy Slam' so let's see what this week brings.

  3. Orlando City striker Cyle Larin:

    I guess I like New York, every time I come here I feel good and things seem to open up for me. It felt really good to break the record and score the hat-trick.

  4. Cormac McCarthy:

    The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

  5. Rick Horrow:

    She has what all corporate America is searching for - humility, intelligence, a sense of drama and aggression to her game, and let's not forget a record-setting hat trick in a dominant U.S. performance as well.


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