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HAT TRICK
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I. (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)