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You are here: Home / Language / Where Did the Term “Hat Trick” For Three of Anything Come From and What Does the Phrase Mean?

Where Did the Term “Hat Trick” For Three of Anything Come From and What Does the Phrase Mean?

February 6, 2020 by Karen Hill

While in Canada a hat trick refers to three goals by a single player in a hockey game.

A “hat trick” means any accomplishment of three and comes from the English game of cricket.

When a bowler retired three consecutive batsmen with three consecutive balls, he was rewarded with a hat.

It became hockey jargon during a time when most spectators wore hats, which they tossed onto the rink as a celebration of three goals by one player.

During the 1930s and 1940s a local Toronto haberdasher gave any Maple Leaf hockey player a custom-made hat if he scored three consecutive goals.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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