hat tricknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhæt ˌtrɪk/us/ˈhæt ˌtrɪk/an occasion when a player scores three times in the same game, especially in football, or when someone is successful at achieving something three times:
Goal! Fowler makes it a hat trick!
After two election victories the government clearly has hopes of a hat trick.
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General terms used in ball sports
- aggregate score
- assist
- attack
- back pass
- bobble
- center circle
- chip
- goalless
- holding
- layoff
- long ball
- man on! idiom
- man-to-man defense
- man-to-man marking
- overarm
- set piece
- shoot
- sidespin
- unplayable
- wrong-foot
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Idiom(s)
the perfect hat trick