spatula

noun

1. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
2. (Canada, US)A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
3. (dated)A palette knife.
4. A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
5. (UK)A tongue depressor.
6. A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.

   “The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!”

7. A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.

   “The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar.”

verb

1. (transitive)To lift with or as if with a spatula.

   “A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.”

   “So if you get road-pizzaed, should you have to pay in order to get yourself spatulaed off of the street?”

   “Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware.”

2. (transitive)To strike with a spatula.

   “Or if you're a Ranma Character. I mean, they've been kicked/punched/thrown/hammered/spatulaed into the stratosphere enough times, you gotta figure they've developed a prretty high threshold of pain/injury.”

   “i.....am............dying.....................i'vebeen..............spatula'd........................to.........death...”

   “I haven't spatulaed anyone in ages...”