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spatchcock

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spatch·cock  (spchkk)
n.
A dressed and split chicken for roasting or broiling on a spit.
tr.v. spatch·cocked, spatch·cock·ing, spatch·cocks
1. To prepare (a dressed chicken) for 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).

[Perhaps alteration of spitchcock, a way of cooking an eel.]

spatchcock [ˈspætʃˌkɒk]
n
(Cookery) a chicken or game bird split down the back and grilled Compare spitchcock
vb (tr)
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) to interpolate (words, a story, etc.) into a sentence, narrative, etc., esp inappropriately
[perhaps variant of spitchcock eel when prepared and cooked]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.spatchcock - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed)
chicken, poulet, volaille - the flesh of a chicken used for food
Verb1.spatchcock - prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a guinea hen"
cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
machinate, devise, prepare, organise, organize, get up - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
2.spatchcock - interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story
slip in, stick in, sneak in, insert - insert casually; "She slipped in a reference to her own work"


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