hat trick

     

A hat-trick in sports is associate with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. In North America it is often rendered as hat trick, with no hyphen. (The Oxford English Dictionary lists it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)

Trivia about hat trick

  • On February 1, 1970 Dave Balon pulled off his first one of these in his pro hockey career
  • In hockey it's the term for 3 goals scored in a single game by the same player
  • It's 3 goals by the same player in a game of soccer, as well as hockey
  • 3 scores by one hockey player in one game
  • The game of cricket gave us this term for 3 or more goals scored by a player in a game

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