Etymology

spatchcocked

spatch·cock·ed
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Today it means: Of poultry, cut along the spine and having its halves spread apart for more even cooking. Full definition →

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The story

From spatchcock + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tenses and past participles of regular verbs).

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