- a dressed fowl that has had its backbone removed and has been split open and flattened so that it cooks more evenly when grilled, broiled, or roasted.
- to prepare and cook (a dressed fowl) in this manner.
- to insert or interpolate, especially in a forced or incongruous manner: Additional information has been spatchcocked into the occasional random footnote.
- a chicken or game bird split down the back and grilled
- to interpolate (words, a story, etc) into a sentence, narrative, etc, esp inappropriately
