spike
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.Examples: "He vvears on his head the Corona Radiata, vvhich at that time vvas another type of his Divinity. The ſpikes that ſhoot out from the crovvn vvere to repreſent the rays of the Sun."broadly
2. (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
3. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.in-pluralinformal
4. (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
5. (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
6. (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.Examples: "Dere's tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes."historicalslang
verb (English)
1. (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.Examples: "Nicolaas, or Nick, as the family called him, wanted to turn professional but an ear injury, sustained during the war, spiked his plans."; "Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would spike the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too."; "Anyway, on this day I was still struggling with how to use fewer than twenty words to sum up my day in Blackpool in a manner which would not prove too upsetting for my parents, when I learned that I'd got spiked. Again."figuratively
2. (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.Synonyms: attack, hit
3. (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.Examples: "He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer's hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun."; "Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns."
4. (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.Examples: "to spike the football"; "“No one is spiking the football yet,” Mr. Kahl said."slang
5. (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary