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Definition of Hat trick
1. Noun. (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.).
Definition of Hat trick
1. Noun. (cricket) Three wickets taken by a bowler in three consecutive balls. ¹
2. Noun. (ice hockey) Three goals scored by one player in a game, usually followed by a shower of hats onto the ice. ¹
3. Noun. (sports by extension) Three achievements in a single game, or similar, such as three consecutive wins. ¹
4. Noun. (baseball ironic) Striking out three times in one game. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hat Trick
Literary usage of Hat trick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"If a man did not do his share of the public service, he was hated out as a coward.—S.
Mer- chaval: History of Virginia. hat trick (cricket), a bowler who ..."
2. America's Habit: Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking, and Organized Crime by Manuel Gonzales, Kevin McEnery, Thomas Sheehan, Susan Mellody (1998)
"hat trick II, a much more ambitious operation begun in November 1985 and still
under way,22 is the logical follow-on, drawing carefully on lessons learned ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Hat-trick, Hat—A white hat used to be given to the bowler who got three batsmen
out in successive balls, provided that they were bowled, stumped, caught, ..."
4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1900)
"Amongst other notable features of the game was the performance by Mr. Whately of
the " hat trick," and that at a crisis when never was a hat trick more ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"The Egg and hat trick. 2-122. The Dissolving Coin. 2-132. The Invisible Journey
of a Glass of Wine. 4-5 Handkerchief Multiplication. 4-8. ..."
6. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1901)
"Bob, whose colours were black, with cherry sleeves, did not even glance at them.
' And this is hat trick,' said Carew. ' I declare he's about the ..."
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