spatch|cock

spatch|cock «SPACH _KOK», noun, verb.

–n.

a freshly killed fowl, split and broiled.

–v.t.

1. to cook as or in the manner of a spatchcock.

2. Especially British Informal, Figurative. to insert or interpolate; sandwich in: »

The new matter consists of long quotations from secondary sources…and of over-written descriptive paragraphs, spatchcocked into the old text (Manchester Guardian).

╂[earlier, to cook hastily < phrase dispatch cock (originally) a chicken prepared with dispatch]