Definition
Scoring three goals in a single game, which in hockey prompts fans to throw actual hats onto the ice like some kind of haberdashery-based celebration. Nobody knows where the tradition started, but thousands of perfectly good hats have been sacrificed to it.
Example Usage
"He scored a hat trick and the crowd threw so many hats onto the ice that the Zamboni needed a snow plow attachment just to clear them all."
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