Hatched
adj, verb, slang
adj, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of hatch form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Fired from one's job for violating the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibits civil-service employees in the executive branch of the federal government from engaging in certain political activities. US, colloquial, not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines wordnet
- 2 emerged from an egg wordnet
Example
More examples"Are you counting your chickens before they are hatched?"