Spatchcock Definition

spăchkŏk

spatchcocks

noun

A dressed and split chicken for roasting or broiling on a spit.

American Heritage

A rushed effort.

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verb

To split open and broil (a fowl)

Webster's New World

To interpolate (a word or words) in or into a text, often hastily or inappropriately.

Webster's New World

To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner.

American Heritage

To put together so as to form a unit or whole, often a clumsy or incongruous one.

Webster's New World

To cut poultry along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.

Spatchcocked chicken.

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Other Word Forms of Spatchcock

Singular:

spatchcock

Plural:

Perhaps short for dispatch cock a cock or chicken that has been killed and dressed in summary manner (from dispatch) (cock) or perhaps alteration of spitchcock an eel cut into short pieces, dressed with bread crumbs, and broiled (of unknown origin)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Related to spitchcock (“to split and broil an eel"), of uncertain origin.

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