spatchcock UK /ˈspæt͡ʃkɒk/US /ˈspæt͡ʃˌkɑk/verb 2noun 1forms 3 verb2 •To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.For the party, he spatchcocked and grilled some chickens. •(figurative) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing) awkwardly; to sandwich (something within another thing).Why is the underplot of King Lear in which Edmund figures lifted out of [Philip] Sidney's Arcadia and spatchcocked on to a Celtic legend older than history? — 1922 noun[before a noun]1 •Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.Spatch cock, abbreviation of a dispatch cock, an Irish dish upon any sudden occasion. It is a hen just killed from the roost, or yard, and immediately skinned, split, and broiled. — 1785 formsspatchcocked · spatchcocking · spatchcocks
