Spike

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Spike(s) may refer to:

Contents 1 Device to puncture or fasten 2 Media 2.1 Fictional characters 2.2 Music 2.3 Books and magazines 2.4 Film and television 3 Sports 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Device to puncture or fasten

• Nail (fastener), especially one over four inches long
• Rail spike, used to construct railroad tracks
• Tree spiking, making a tree dangerous to cut with a chainsaw
• "Spiking a gun", using a nail to render a muzzle-loading gun inoperable by driving the nail into the touch hole
• Spike strip, tire deflation device
• Spike bayonet, an attachment for a firearm

[edit] Media

[edit] Fictional characters

• Spike (comics), any of several Marvel comic book characters
• Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character in the Buffyverse
• Spike (Degrassi character), a character in the Degrassi television series
• Spike, a character in the Peanuts universe
• Spike, a character in the My Little Pony television series
• Spike Lester, a character in the Passions television series
• Spike Spiegel, a character in Cowboy Bebop media
• Spike (Dragon Ball) or Akkuman, a character in Dragon Ball media
• The Spike, one of the Titans in the 2007 video game Crash of the Titans
• Spike, a character in Dinosaurs media
• Spike (The Land Before Time), a character in The Land Before Time media
• Spike, a character in the Space Quest V: The Next Mutation universe
• Cecil "Spike" Wilson, a character in the Sugar and Spike universe
• Spike (Tom and Jerry), a character in Tom and Jerry media
• Spike Witwicky, a character in Transformers media

[edit] Music

• Spike (Elvis Costello album), a 1989 album by Elvis Costello
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), a 2001 album by Puffy AmiYumi
• Spike Edney, British musician
• Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys
• Spike Stent or Mark Stent, British record producer and audio engineer

[edit] Books and magazines

• Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996
• The Spike (1980), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (1997), novel by Damien Broderick

[edit] Film and television

• Spike (TV channel), an American cable network
• Spike of Bensonhurst, a 1988 comedy-drama film starring Sasha Mitchell
• Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term
• Spike Feresten (born 1964), American television personality

[edit] Sports

• Track spikes, traction-increasing devices on a track shoe, worn during track and field events
• Spike, a term in volleyball
• Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football
• Takeo Spikes, American football player

[edit] Other uses

• Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation ATGM
• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments
• Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
• Drink spiking, to covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances
• Spike Shooter, a sports energy drink
• Action potential, a concept in neuroscience
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge
• Spike, a type of raceme with sessile flowers
• SPIKE algorithm, a parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
• The SPIKE project, an FP7 EU R&D project focusing on business alliances and networked enterprises
• A colloquialism for workhouse
• The spike, slang for an elbow bump

[edit] See also

• Spike (given name)
• Spike (MGM)
• Caltrop
• Punji stick

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