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Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Video Spike

Common usage

• Cleat (shoe), protrusions on the sole of a shoe
• Nail (fastener), especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
• Rail spike, or screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks
• Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers

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People

• Spike (nickname), a list of people
• Spike (surname), a list of people
• Spikes (surname), a list of people

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Culture

Performers

• 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 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
• Spike (dog), a dog actor

Music

• Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments

Albums

• Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
• Spike (Agata album), 2004

Songs

• "Spike", a song from The Network album Money Money 2020
• "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit

Television

• Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network
  • Spike (UK), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Russia), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Netherlands & Flanders), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Italy)

Publications

• Spike Art Quarterly an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
• 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
• The Spike (1980), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (1997), a novel by Damien Broderick
• Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996

Other uses in culture

• Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike
• Spike (video game), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system
• Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage

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Technology

• Spike (database), a biological database
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
• Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
• Spiking (mobile app), a mobile social trading platform

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Sports

• 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

Athletes

• 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

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Slang

• Mickey Finn (drugs), for spiking a drink
• Spiking a typically nonalcoholic drink is to add alcohol to it or another drug
• Colloquial name for a workhouse

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Weapons

• Spiking the guns, rendering a muzzle-loading gun temporarily inoperable by driving a nail into the vent
• Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
• Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles

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Other uses

• Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or make public
• Spike (stagecraft), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors
• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
• SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations

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See also

• All pages beginning with "Spike"
• All pages with a title containing Spike
• Golden spike (disambiguation)
• Spiked (disambiguation)
• The Spike (disambiguation)
• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "The Spike"
• All pages with a title containing The Spike

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