Spiking

Look up spike in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Spike may refer to:

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
• Spike strip, tire deflation device
• Spike bayonet, an attachment for a firearm

Media

Fictional characters

• Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Spike (Rugrats), a character from Rugrats and All Grown Up!
• Spike, Snoopy\'s brother in the comic strip Peanuts
• Spike Spiegel, a character from the anime/manga series Cowboy Bebop
• Spike (MGM), a recurring character on Tom and Jerry
• Spike, nickname for Akkuman, a character from Dragon Ball
• The Spike, one of the Titans in the 2007 videogame Crash of the Titans
• Spike, a character in Dinosaurs as Robbie Sinclair\'s friend.

Music

• Spike (Elvis Costello album), a 1989 album by Elvis Costello
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), a 2001 album by Puffy AmiYumi

Books and magazines

• Spike Magazine
• The Spike (1980), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (1997), novel by Damien Broderick

Film and television

• Spike (TV channel)
• Spike of Bensonhurst
• Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term

Sports

• Track spikes, traction-increasing devices on a track shoe, worn during track and field events
• Spike, a term in volleyball
• Spike, a term in American football

Other uses

• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike (missile)
• Spike band, a bracelet or necklace
• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• Spike Shooter, a sports energy drink
• Action potential, a concept in neuroscience
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge
• Spike, term for an adolescent male deer or elk
• Spike, a type of raceme with sessile flowers
• Spike, nickname for the Spire of Dublin

As a verb:

• The act of driving a spike into the firing mechanism of a cannon, rendering it temporarily useless.
• The act of driving a spike into a tree, making it dangerous to cut with a chainsaw.
• The act of adding extra alcohol to a party beverage, generally without the knowledge of other partygoers.

See also

• Spike (given name)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia