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spread eagle
- the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread, used as an emblem of the U.S.
- something suggesting this, as an acrobatic figure in fancy skating
adjective
- having the figure of an eagle with wings and legs spread
- ☆ Informal boastful or jingoistic about the U.S.
transitive verb spread-eagled, spread-eagling
to stretch out in the form of a spread eagle, as for a flogging
intransitive verb
to perform a spread eagle
See spread eagle in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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