spread-ea·gle (sprĕdē′gəl)
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Tweet 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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