Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Books
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The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
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The Spike (Broderick book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick
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The Spike, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void
Comics
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Spike (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson
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Spike (IDW Publishing), an American comic book series featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character
Film and television
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Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage
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Spike (dog actor)
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Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network
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5Spike, a former localized British version of the American channel
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Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
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Spike (Dutch TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
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"Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series
Music
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Spike (Agata album), 2004
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Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
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Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
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Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments
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"Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Southern Accents
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"Spike", a song by The Network from the album Money Money 2020
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"Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit
Periodicals
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Spike Art Magazine, an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
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Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike
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Spike (company), a video game company
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Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story
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Spike (stagecraft), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors
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Spike (video game), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system
Biology and medicine
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Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
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Spike (neuroscience), or action potential
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SPIKES, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
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Spike protein, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
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Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure
People
Names
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Spike (nickname), a list of people
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Spike (surname), a list of people
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Spikes (surname), a list of people
People with the name or stage name
In film
In music
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Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys
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Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams
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Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect
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Spike Jones, American bandleader and humorist
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Spike Slawson, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band Corporate Avenger
In professional wrestling
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Spike Dudley, the ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970)
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Moondog Spike, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson
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Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association
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Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters
Sport
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Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football
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Spike (volleyball), a form of volleyball attack
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Spikes (mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings
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State College Spikes, a baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League
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Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction
Technology
Computing
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Spike (application), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format
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Spike (database), a biological database
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Spiking (fintech), a social trading platform
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Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
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SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
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Spike, a command in Microsoft Word
Mechanical devices
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Cleat (shoe), a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
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Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate
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Nail (fastener), or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
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Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles
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Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers
Other uses in technology
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Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
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NAVAIR Spike
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Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
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Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the touch hole
Other uses
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Spike, to add alcohol or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff
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Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug
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Spike, a colloquial name for a workhouse
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Spike, Michigan, a former settlement
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Needle spiking, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
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Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic
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Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis), for the star Spica
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Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia
See also
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Golden Spike (disambiguation)
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Spike Island (disambiguation)
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Spiked (disambiguation)
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Spiker (disambiguation)
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The Spike (disambiguation)
