Hatch
Hatch verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Swing
Swing verb - To change one's course or direction.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Hatch, however, only won due to a Spanner in the Works, in his favor...namely, one swing vote guy voted for him, for a...rather racist reason.
Source: Kingmaker Scenario -
Since Doc Brown's DeLorean in Back to the Future has hatch-style doors that swing open vertically, he's able to pull off the extremely rare move of clocking a stationary onlooker — namely Biff — upside the head with his.
Source: Toyota Tripwire
Cite this Source
Swing and Hatch. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hatch/swing
Hatch & Swing. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hatch/swing>.
Swing or Hatch. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hatch/swing.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "hatch" and "swing" have occurred on timeline