hatchverb
uk/hætʃ/us/hætʃ/hatch verb (EGG)
[ I or T ] to (cause an egg to) break in order to allow a young animal to come out
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Animal (non-human) behaviour
- accidental
- eusocial
- fledge
- frisk
- lap
- maul
- migrant
- mob
- molt
- nest
- nuzzle
- perch
- prey
- ruminate
- scratch
- shy
- skitter
- slaver 1
- torpor
- trot
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hatch verb (PLAN)
[ T ] to make a plan, especially a secret plan:
He hatched a plot to forge documents that would embarrass the company.
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Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- pretext
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- trap
- wheeze
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Planning, expecting and arranging
hatchnoun [ C ]
uk/hætʃ/us/hætʃ/also hatchway,an opening through a wall, floor, etc., or the cover for it:
an escape hatch
a serving hatch
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Air travel: parts of aeroplanes
- -nosed
- aisle
- autopilot
- barf bag
- canopy
- fixed-wing
- flight recorder
- fuselage
- joystick
- nose
- nose cone
- pod
- propeller
- retrorocket
- rudder
- safety belt
- shell
- skid
- starboard
- wing
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Holes, hollows and dips
Idiom(s)
down the hatch!