SPATCHCOCKED Synonyms

• having been flattened

• extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)

• an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea

• a bottle containing half the usual amount

• a promised or claimed share of loot or money

• a lengthwise crack in wood

• an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

• a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts

• (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl

• an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity

• the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

• division of a group into opposing factions

• having been divided; having the unity destroyed

• (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain

• separate into parts or portions

• separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• go one's own way; move apart

• come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure

• To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

• To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

• any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species

• a person of French descent

• a decorative loop of braid or cord

• hunt frogs for food