0 a chicken or other type of bird that has been cut open down the middle, pressed flat, and cooked; this method of cooking a chicken, etc.: --
1 to prepare a chicken or other type of bird for cooking by cutting it open down the middle, and then pressing it flat: --
I recognise that that was a spatchcock policy that could not last and did not last.
If at the same time it is discovering new problems, it runs the risk of producing ill-considered, spatchcock legislation.
We might have tolerated that sort of spatchcock muddle at a time when the risk of flooding was lower, but it is no longer acceptable.
Schools in the non-maintained sector are not spatchcock schools but have considerable skills and facilities and their premises are usually adequate.
One always has to be careful when spatchcocking that the finished article does not fall apart and that none of the limbs is burnt or disjointed.
He argued that if this is spatchcocked into the legislation, would there not be implications in other legislation that opencast coal operators would have to take into account?
We are in favour of anything that will help to move men up, but we are not in favour of another lot of men being spatchcocked in.
He admitted that the report has been spatchcocked together in a week or two.
