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Spike
Summary
Look up
Spike
,
spike
,
spikes
,
spiking
, or
spiky
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Spike
,
spikes
, or
spiking
may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Books
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The Spike
(novel)
, a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
The Spike
(Broderick book)
, a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick
The Spike
, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's
The Evolutionary Void
Comics
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Spike
(DC Thomson)
a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson
Spike
(IDW Publishing)
, a comic book series featuring the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
character
Film and television
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Spike
(2008 film)
, directed by Robert Beaucage
Spike (dog actor)
Spike (TV channel)
, a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network
5Spike
, a former localized British version of the American channel
Spike (Australian TV channel)
, a localized version of the American channel
Spike (Dutch TV channel)
, a localized version of the American channel
"Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series
Project S: The Series
Music
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Spike
(Agata album)
, 2004
Spike
(Puffy AmiYumi album)
, 2001
Spike
(Elvis Costello album)
, 1989
Spike (music)
, a part of certain stringed instruments
"Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album
Bottomless Pit
"Spike", a song from The Network album
Money Money 2020
Periodicals
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Spike Art Quarterly
an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
Spike Magazine
, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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Spike (character)
, a list of fictional characters named Spike
Spike (company)
, a video game company
Spike (journalism)
, to decide not to publish or publicize a story
Spike (stagecraft)
, markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors
Spike
(video game)
, a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system
Biology and medicine
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Spike (botany)
, a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
Spike (neuroscience)
, or action potential
SPIKES
, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
Spike protein
, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
Spine (zoology)
, a hard, needle-like anatomical structure
People
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Names
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Spike (nickname)
, a list of people
Spike (surname)
, a list of people
Spikes (surname)
, a list of people
People with the name or stage name
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In film
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Spike Jonze
, an American filmmaker
Spike Lee
, an American filmmaker
In music
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Spike (musician)
, singer of The Quireboys
Spike (Welsh guitarist)
, stage name of Mike Williams
Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band
Di-rect
Spike Jones
, American bandleader and humorist
Spike Slawson
, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band
Corporate Avenger
In professional wrestling
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Spike Dudley
, the ring name of former American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970)
Moondog Spike
, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson
Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the
United States Wrestling Association
Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters
Sport
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Spike (gridiron football)
, a play in American football
Spike (volleyball)
, a form of volleyball attack
Spikes (mascot)
, the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings
State College Spikes
, a minor league baseball team that plays in the New York – Penn League
Track spikes
, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction
Technology
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Computing
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Spike (application)
, an email app which displays email in a chat-like format
Spike (database)
, a biological database
Spiking (fintech)
, a social trading platform
Spike (software development)
, a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
SPIKE algorithm
, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
Spike, a
command in Microsoft Word
Mechanical devices
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Cleat (shoe)
, a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
Track spikes
, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate
Nail (fastener)
, or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
Rail spike
, used to construct railroad tracks
Screw spike
, used to construct railroad tracks
Spike strip
, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles
Spindle (stationery)
, an upright spike used to hold papers
Other uses in technology
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Spike (missile)
an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
Voltage spike
, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the
touch hole
Other uses
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Spike, to add
alcohol
or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff
Mickey Finn (drugs)
, a drink laced with an incapacitating drug
Spike, a colloquial name for a
workhouse
Spike, Michigan
, a former settlement
Needle spiking
, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
Tree spiking
, a radical environmentalist tactic
Virgin's Spike (Latin:
spīca virginis
), for the star
Spica
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Spikes
.
All pages with titles beginning with
Spike
All pages with titles containing
Spike
Spiked (disambiguation)
Spiker (disambiguation)
The Spike (disambiguation)
Golden spike (disambiguation)
Spike Island (disambiguation)
All pages with titles beginning with
The Spike
All pages with titles containing
The Spike