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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spatchcock.

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Examples

  • Mr. Yaseen won the barbecue championship in 2009 with a grilled water-buffalo soola a traditional marinade and spatchcocked chicken with different spices for the leg and breast.

    A Smoking-Hot Trend Bruce Palling 2011

  • I have fried, fricasseed, stuffed and spatchcocked them.

    Jazzing Up the Bird Rozanne Gold 2011

  • It is half of B*Witched doing a spatchcocked Lady Gaga impression based on the guitar riff from The Flight Of The Conchords' theme with hollow vocals about dancing.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • It was a political arrangement, spatchcocked together to force the International Monetary Fund to keep forking out for the initial bail-out.

    Notable & Quotable 2012

  • If you do manage to get them out, they have to go home at 9.30pm simply because they are spatchcocked with tiredness.

    It's my holiday. No kids allowed – ever! 2011

  • Beeton's matronly tone is softened by a pregnant Dahl, cooing over stone fruits and the dark, Shiraz-y flesh of a spatchcocked pigeon.

    It's a good week for … comfort food 2011

  • "Chicken, unless it is spatchcocked, and fish, which simply doesn't work well."

    Barbecuing the Perfect Steak Jemima Sissons 2011

  • Pretty little spatchcocked quail stuffed under the skin with smashed garlic cloves and hot red pepper and then thrown on the grill?

    Elissa Altman: The Tortured Omnivore 2008

  • And you have a beautifully spatchcocked chicken ready to prepare how you wish.

    Archive 2008-05-01 kat 2008

  • The chicken is spatchcocked go here for our tutorial on spatchcocking which allows for it to cook evenly & remain really juicy.

    Archive 2008-07-01 kat 2008

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