Spatchcock

Quick meaning: Spatchcock is a noun meaning (cooking, also attributively) Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.

Meaning

(cooking, also attributively) Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.

More Meanings

1. (cooking, transitive) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.
2. (figuratively, transitive) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing) awkwardly; to sandwich (something within another thing).

Example Sentences

For the party, he spatchcocked and grilled some chickens.

We would have had to spatchcock together whatever coalition we could, but it was profoundly difficult, […]

Katniss [Everdeen] emerges alone, smeared in blood and muck and gnawing on the charred remains of a spatchcocked squirrel.

Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of [Philip] Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history?

Word Forms

• spatchcocks
• spatchcocking
• spatchcocked

Synonyms for spatchcock

Depending on context, synonyms include frog.

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