A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Spike

1. Proper noun.  (non-gloss definition, A male nickname.) .
2. Noun.  A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
3. Noun.  Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
4. Noun.  An ear of grain.
5. Noun.  (context, botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
6. Noun.  (''in plural'' '''spikes'''; ''informal'') Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
7. Noun.  A sharp peak in a graph.
8. Noun.  (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
9. Noun.  (context, zoology) An adolescent male deer.
10. Noun.  a surge in power.
11. Noun.  (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
12. Verb.  To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances.
13. Verb.  To add a small amount of one substance to another.
14. Verb.  (volleyball) 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.
15. Verb.  (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
16. Verb.  (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public.