adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
spiky (= stiff and standing up on top of your head )
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Billy had black spiky hair.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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Then the figure flung its hands away from its face and began to prance wildly, waving its fists above its spiky hair .
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Captain Trung had come up, helmet in one hand, rubbing his spiky hair with the other.
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He has his spiky hair , strong opinions and wacky humour.
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We followed the drawings of the little prince with his simple round face and spiky hair , standing on his asteroid world.
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They wore pastel pink sundresses, and I wore dark clothes and had spiky hair .
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Her spiky hair scratches down my front.
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They wore black, with make-up, spiky hair , and eerie cheap jewellery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a spiky cactus plant
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He had a leather jacket and short, spiky hair.
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Some corals are quite smooth, others are sharp and spiky .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Captain Trung had come up, helmet in one hand, rubbing his spiky hair with the other.
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His hair was dyed black now, and it was spiky .
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I could feel things, pieces of metal, sharp spiky things, nothing living.
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She wears white spiky heels and has a tiny white beret balanced asymmetrically on the side of her head.
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Their creamy white bodies are covered with spiky white ice crystals.
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Then the figure flung its hands away from its face and began to prance wildly, waving its fists above its spiky hair.
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We followed the drawings of the little prince with his simple round face and spiky hair, standing on his asteroid world.