spatchcock

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What the hell is a spatchcock, and where can I get one? thanks for wiping the image of Craig wearing two lingerie-style thongs out of my head.

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  1. noun A dressed and split chicken for roasting or broiling on a spit.
  2. transitive verb To prepare (a dressed chicken) for grilling by splitting open.
  3. transitive verb To introduce or interpose, especially in a labored or unsuitable manner: "Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music” (Alan Rich).

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  • Pizza (night-time only), antipasti, salt and pepper calamari, grilled spatchcock, mussels with white wine, prawns in napolitano sauce, mascarpone, gelati.
  • A seriously splayed spatchcock gets a bigger blast of heat, its skin blackened in places.
  • Please bring either an umbrella or a frozen spatchcock and some toothpicks. —  MetaFilter Projects
  • What the hell is a spatchcock, and where can I get one? thanks for wiping the image of Craig wearing two lingerie-style thongs out of my head. —  MetaFilter Projects
  • As it gives a sort of summing up of the state of affairs to-day I spatchcock (as Buller used to say) the carbon GENERAL HEADQUARTERS MEDITERRANEAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 17th June, 1915. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
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  1. Perhaps alteration of spitchcock, a way of cooking an eel.
 

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