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🔪 To split a bird ✏️ To insert awkwardly 🍗 A split chicken
spatchcock

spatchcock

9.9
A bird like a chicken split open and flattened for roasting
  • noun
  • /ˈspæʧˌkɒk/
  • Specialized
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  • The chef prepared a spatchcock for tonight's special.

Examples

  • Did you ever try a spatchcock at that new restaurant?

  • The chef recommended making a spatchcock chicken to ensure even cooking on the grill.

  • A fresh spatchcock cooks more evenly and quickly than a whole bird.

  • They enjoyed grilled spatchcock with herbs and lemon at the barbecue.

  • A spatchcock is perfect for grilling.

  • For dinner, she prepared a spatchcock game hen, which roasted beautifully in the oven.

  • He ordered a spatchcock bird from the butcher to make his famous barbecue recipe.

Synonyms

roast chicken
vsspatchcock
7 1.0

Chicken cooked in an oven until brown and served as a main meal

is prepared by splitting the bird along its back and cooking soon after killing
fowl
vsspatchcock
6 3.2

Meat from birds like chicken or duck used for food

is a specific preparation where the bird is split and cooked quickly after slaughter

Surface Forms

spatchcock singular
spatchcocks plural

Etymology

The word spatchcock probably comes from older words like dispatch and cock, meaning 'do quickly' and 'bird'. So a spatchcock is a bird split open and flattened so it cooks faster and more evenly.