Usually means: Flatten bird by removing backbone.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word spatchcock:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. spatchcock: Merriam-Webster
  2. spatchcock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spatchcock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spatchcock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spatchcock: Vocabulary.com
  6. spatchcock: Wordnik
  7. spatchcock: Wiktionary
  8. spatchcock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spatchcock: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. spatchcock: Dictionary.com
  11. Spatchcock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Spatchcock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. spatchcock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. spatchcock: Rhymezone
  15. Spatchcock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. spatchcock: FreeDictionary.org
  17. spatchcock: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. spatchcock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Spatchcock: The Word Detective
  20. spatchcock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Spatchcock: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spatchcock: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spatchcock: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. spatchcock: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spatchcocking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spatchcock)

noun:  (cooking, also attributively) Poultry which has been cut along the spine and spread out for more even cooking.
verb:  (cooking) To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart for more even cooking.
verb:  (figuratively) Often followed by in or into: to interpolate or insert (something into another thing); to sandwich (something within another thing).

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