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Spatchcock

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Noun

1. spatchcock

flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)

Verb

2. spatchcock

prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock

Example Sentences:
'spatchcock a guinea hen'

3. spatchcock

interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Spatchcock

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noun
1. 
a chicken or game bird split down the back and grilled
Compare spitchcock
verb (transitive)
2. 
to interpolate (words, a story, etc) into a sentence, narrative, etc, esp inappropriately

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Spatchcock

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verb transitive
1. 
to split open and broil (a fowl)
2.  Informal
a. 
to interpolate (a word or words) in or into a text, often hastily or inappropriately
b. 
to put together so as to form a unit or whole, often a clumsy or incongruous one

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Spatchcock

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n.
A dressed and split fowl for roasting or grilling.
tr.v. spatch·cocked, spatch·cock·ing, spatch·cocks
1. To prepare (a dressed fowl) for roasting or grilling by splitting open.
2. To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner: "Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music" (Alan Rich).

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