Other forms: hat-tricks
A hat-trick is three goals by one player in a single match. Score a hat-trick, a first-half hat-trick, complete the hat-trick.
The name comes from cricket, where a bowler who took three wickets in three balls was given a hat by his club. It has spread to mean any three successes in a row, in elections as readily as in sport.
1nounhat-trickThree goals by one player in a single match.
“He took the match ball home after a hat-trick in twenty minutes.”
hat-trick is an achievement.
Also accepted in games: hat trick
hat trick comes from hat + trick. hat + trick. cricket—the original sporting sense—refers to the commemorative hat formerly given as a prize to the bowler by his club.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Sports & Fitness