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

v. To prepare (a dressed chicken) for grilling by splitting open.

v. 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).

n. Chicken meat when prepared by spatchcocking. (See below.)

n. A rushed effort.

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

v. To interpolate, insert or sandwich (in or into)

v. To prepare in haste.

n. See spitchcock.

n. A fowl killed and immediately broiled, as for some sudden occasion.

To kill and serve (a fowl) hastily, as a spatch-cock.

To prepare (something) in haste for an emergency; in the extract, to insert hastily into a document.

Milit., to punish by stretching upon the ground with arms and legs extended and fastened down.

v. prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock

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

v. interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story

"I've used chicken Maryland portions but you could easier use this for a whole chicken - it would be best if you "spatchcock" the chicken first, that just means you cut it straight down the backbone and flatten it out."

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