spread-eagled


spread-ea·gle

(sprĕd′ē′gəl)adj.1. Positioned with the arms and legs stretched out.2. Informal Full of patriotic or jingoistic rhetoric.v. spread-ea·gled, spread-ea·gling, spread-ea·gles v.tr. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment.v.intr.1. To assume a spread-eagle position.2. To make a grandiloquent, patriotic speech.
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