HAT TRICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hat trick mean? 

• HAT TRICK (noun)
  The noun HAT TRICK has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HAT TRICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAT TRICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hat trick" is a kind of...):

score (the act of scoring in a game or sport)

Domain category:

hockey; hockey game; ice hockey (a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled hockey sticks)

cricket (a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs)