hat trick

1. 1.

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

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   cricket · ice hockey

Questions about hat trick

What does hat trick mean?

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

Is hat trick a common word?

hat trick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.