• Japanese: スパイク
• Russian: атакa , атакующий удар , нападающий удар , удар

• Japanese: 牡鹿

Verb

1. To put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances.
2. 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.
3. To hammer an iron spike into the touch hole so as to render a gun unusable.

   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. — Frederick Marryat, "Peter Simple", 1834

4. (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.
   • October 14, 2002, Jonathan Sale, The Guardian, Edward VIII news blackout.

     Instead, the "Beaver" declared he would spike the story about Wallis Simpson and make sure his fellow media moguls sat on it too.

Synonyms

• italbrac volleyball: attack, hit

Translations

• Russian: атаковать, нападать, ударить

Spike may refer to:

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

Media

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

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

Books and magazines

• Spike Magazine
• The Spike (1980), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (1997), novel by Damien Broderick

Film and television

• Spike (TV channel)
• Spike of Bensonhurst
• Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term

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

Software Developement

• Spike (software development) a focused explorative approach to a programming problem

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:

• 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

See also

• Caltrop
• Punji stick
• Spike (given name)

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