Hat-trick

A hat-trick in sports is associated 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 has it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)

Other usage

In theater and dance, the term refers to dance moves involving manipulations of a hat, such as rolling the hat across the dancer's shoulders.

Related Topics:
Theater - Dance

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The term has migrated from sports usage into other colloquial expressions in which it can mean any sequence of three similar events in succession.

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