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Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun spatchcock has 1 senses

   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


Verb spatchcock has 2 senses

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


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

spatchcock, n.

   See Spitchcock. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

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