[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["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."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["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."]}]