spatchcock(n = noun.food) - flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed);
is a kind of chicken, poulet, volaille
Derived form verb spatchcock1
1. spatchcock(v = verb.creation) - prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock; "spatchcock a guinea hen"
is one way to devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare
Derived form noun spatchcock1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
2. spatchcock(v = verb.creation) - interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story;
is one way to insert, slip in, sneak in, stick in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
See Spitchcock. [1913 Webster]
spatchcock, n. & v.
--n. a chicken or esp. game bird split open and grilled.
--v.tr.
1 treat (poultry) in this way.
2 colloq. insert or interpolate (a phrase, sentence, story, etc.) esp. incongruously.
Etymology:
orig. in Ir. use, expl. by Grose (1785) as f. dispatch-cock, but cf. SPITCHCOCK