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Meaning of hat trick in English

hat trick
noun [ C ]
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/ˈhæt ˌtrɪk/ us
/ˈhæt ˌtrɪk/
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an occasion when a player scores three times in the same game, especially in football, or when someone is successful at achieving something three times:
Goal! Fowler makes it a hat trick!
After two election victories the government clearly has hopes of a hat trick.
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the perfect hat trick
(Definition of hat trick from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of hat trick

hat trick
The word "hat trick" seems to have a pretty good definition, and that definition is what is being provided to the person learning the word.
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His example of a novel concept learned through language - "hat trick" in hockey - is explained in perceptual-action terms.
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The problem with the "hat trick" example is that it is far too simple.
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Although he believes that we can learn new concepts from language (such as "hat trick"), language has nothing to do with generating or appreciating new concepts.
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This is an excellent opportunity to perform the hat trick and give us another.
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I am not prepared to let him do a hat trick on me.
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I shall now look in more detail at the three aspects of the economic hat trick.
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That is not quite a hat trick, but it took the varnish off the stumps.
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It is remarkable: we have done more than a hat trick.
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I think that the wisest course is probably to wait until the hat trick has been scored.
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We have reached a hat trick today; it has been very comforting.
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I think that might really be called a hat trick.
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The economic hat trick is a hat trick of good news.
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I wish to raise with you what is clearly emerging as a hat trick post-television.
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Perhaps we may have a third to give us a hat trick.
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Translations of hat trick

in Chinese (Traditional)
一人連續三次取勝, 一人連續三次得分，（尤指足球賽中的）帽子戲法…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
一人连续三次取胜, 一人连续三次得分，（尤指足球赛中的）帽子戏法…
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in Spanish
tres goles, triplete, tres goles marcados por un mismo jugador en un partido…
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três gols…
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peş peşe üç gol, üçlük…
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coup du chapeau…
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hattrick…
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hattrick…
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mencetak tiga gol…
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ผู้ที่ทำประตูได้ 3 ประตูต่อเกม…
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ghi ba bàn thắng trong một trận đấu…
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hat-trick, hat trick…
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hat trick…
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tiga gol berturut-turut…
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der Hattrick…
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hat trick…
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три м'яча, забитих одним гравцем…
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