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Definition of Spike

Spike

  1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
  2. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  3. An ear of corn or grain.
  4. A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  5. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
  6. To set or furnish with spikes.
  7. To fix on a spike.
  8. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
  9. Spike lavender. See Lavender.

Spike Quotations

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
Thomas Frank

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
Diablo Cody

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins
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Spike Translations

spike in German is festnageln, Stift
spike in Swedish is bult, pigg, tagg

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