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spatchcock definition

spatch·cock (spac̸h′käk′)

transitive verb

  1. to split open and broil (a fowl)
  2. Informal
    1. to interpolate (a word or words) in or into a text, often hastily or inappropriately
    2. to put together so as to form a unit or whole, often a clumsy or incongruous one

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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