Spike
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Spike may refer to:
[edit] Device to puncture or fasten
- Nail (fastener), especially one over four inches long
- Rail spike, used to construct railroad tracks
- Tree spiking, making a tree dangerous to cut with a chainsaw
- Spike strip, tire deflation device
- Spike bayonet, an attachment for a firearm
[edit] Media
[edit] Fictional characters
- Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- Spike, Snoopy's brother in the comic strip Peanuts
- Spike Spiegel, a character from the anime/manga series Cowboy Bebop
- Spike (MGM), a recurring character on Tom and Jerry
- Spike (Dragon Ball) or Akkuman, a character in Dragon Ball media
- The Spike, one of the Titans in the 2007 videogame Crash of the Titans
- Spike, a character in Dinosaurs as Robbie Sinclair's friend.
- Spike (The Land Before Time) a character from the animated film, The Land Before Time
- Spike, a facehugger and pet of Roger Wilco in Space Quest V: The Next Mutation
[edit] Music
- Spike (Elvis Costello album), a 1989 album by Elvis Costello
- Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), a 2001 album by Puffy AmiYumi
- Mark "Spike" Stent, a British record producer and audio engineer
[edit] Books and magazines
- Spike Magazine
- The Spike (1980), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
- The Spike (1997), novel by Damien Broderick
[edit] Film and television
- Spike (TV channel)
- Spike of Bensonhurst
- Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term
[edit] Sports
- Track spikes, traction-increasing devices on a track shoe, worn during track and field events
- Spike, a term in volleyball
- Spike, a term in American football
- Takeo Spikes, American football player
[edit] Software Developement
- Spike (software development) a focused explorative approach to a programming problem
[edit] Other uses
- Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation ATGM
- Spike (company), a video game company
- Spike band, a bracelet or necklace
- Spike Island (disambiguation)
- Spike Shooter, a sports energy drink
- Action potential, a concept in neuroscience
- Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge
- Spike, term for an adolescent male deer or elk
- Spike, a type of raceme with sessile flowers
- Spike, nickname for the Spire of Dublin
- Spike, slang for syringe/hypodermic needle
- Spike, Heroin cut with scopolamine or strychnine
As a verb:
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- The act of driving a spike into the firing mechanism of a cannon, rendering it temporarily useless.
- The act of driving a spike into a tree, making it dangerous to cut with a chainsaw.
- The act of adding extra alcohol to a party beverage, generally without the knowledge of other partygoers.
- The act of injecting a hypodermic needle