Spike
Pronunciations
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/spaɪk/
Proper noun
A male nickname.
- Examples
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This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.
More examples (1)
He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.
Proper noun
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Word forms
Spikes