I. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
sharp
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A roughly rectangular plate, hinged to the back of the shield, carries a sharp spike of a tail.
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The bright red stool that sat closest to the register and the threateningly sharp check spike was the least used.
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They may be loath to accept a partner and some female insects are decorated with sharp spikes to discourage courtship.
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StarKist had a sharp spike in its sales after it launched Tuna in a Pouch.
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Tonight, though, they rarely come across as well, because instrumental fluff and dead wood have crept in between the sharp spikes .
■ NOUN
heel
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Marie said and hung up quickly as Astrid teetered back into the office on her gold spike heels .
price
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The bottom line is, the latest price spike has left motorists feeling angry and political leaders looking for somebody to blame.
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After the price spike , the cost was around 14 to 22.
■ VERB
drive
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In the dark she had hammered at him as if she were driving a spike .
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But in 1923, President Harding himself came here to drive the golden spike .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A row of spikes lined the top of the wall.
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In the last six months, there has been a spike in unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From the centre of the rosette sprang a single five-inch stalk with a small spike of closed white flowers at its end.
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Graceful spikes of lords-and-ladies pushed up through the earth below white-blossomed blackthorn.
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His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail.
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In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike .
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Inside the wool moved ships, and we could see the tips of their masts travelling above the fog like disembodied spikes.
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The bottom line is, the latest price spike has left motorists feeling angry and political leaders looking for somebody to blame.
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What would some one have thought, had he looked on the seat and seen those spikes there?
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Who can forget the rage, the gait, the spike jammed into the fringed brow, the smoldering eyes?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ball
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William Floyd, after a run to nowhere, spiked the ball a mile high.
gun
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So she had concocted this marvellous plan to spike Jenny's guns .
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Federalism has spiked the guns of would-be autonomy-seekers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Anti-logging activists often spike trees to prevent them from being cut down.
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New telephone line orders have spiked in the last two years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And when I hummed old tunes that soothed my baby sister something in them spiked your grief to howling.
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Endless bowls of hot tortilla chips are accompanied by a fresh salsa spiked with just the right amount of cilantro.
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In 1987, Mr Salvigsen again hit a home run when he forecast that interest rates would spike up.
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James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.
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She was looking particularly uncompromising today, tired and pale, her dark, short hair spiking up at the back.
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The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.