hat trick
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3.7
- noun
- /hæt trɪk/
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triplete
- Junior Liz Malone tallied a hat trick in the game, including the game winner.
- scored a hat trick
- scoring a hat trick
- first hat trick
Now your third time, that's a hat trick on Startalk.
- Now your third time, that's a hat trick on Startalk.
- I mean, this is the first thing I would say is, is you're set up for failure right out of the gate because this is a very difficult hat trick to accomplish.
- Raheem Sterling has now scored as many Premier League hat tricks as these five guys.
- And then when I was manager, my first game was it was in China away and first half scores hat trick.
Examples
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Afoa notched a hat trick in her first game as a Pirate.
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'Pelé scored a hat trick.'
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Warren would finish a night with 3 goals, achieving her initial career hat trick.
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Matthews finished his career with 30 hat tricks, including 10 in his senior year.
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Whenever a guy gets a hat trick like David Estrada got tonight, it's a great performance for him.
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What's this hat trick that's happening right now?
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Raul motored to his second goal of the night and nearly had a hat trick.
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Junior forward Brian McGinty led ASU with three goals and his first hat trick of the season.
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Ian Avery led Bow (13-1) with a hat trick, while Dan Crisman and David Chern each scored twice.
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During the match, he scored a brilliant hat trick, securing victory for his team.
Surface Forms
Morphology
hat + trick
The sense 'three successes by one player' is not predictable from the literal meanings of 'hat' (a head covering) and 'trick' (a cunning act or skill); nothing in the constituents signals the number three or sports scoring. 'Hat trick' is a conventionalized sports idiom (historically and culturally specific) often borrowed into other languages, so a B1 learner who only knows the parts would not reliably infer the full meaning.
Etymology
Hat trick may come from old cricket: when a player in cricket took three wickets in a row, people would give him a new hat or pass a hat around to collect money as a gift. That clear picture of three quick wins is why hat trick now means 'three successes' in a game.