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