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Spike , spikes , spiking , or spiky may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
For people in arts and media, see
§ People .
Books
Comics
Film and television
Music
Periodicals
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Biology and medicine
Spike (botany) , a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
Spike (neuroscience) , or action potential
SPIKES , a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
Spike protein , a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
Spine (zoology) , a hard, needle-like anatomical structure
People
Names
People with the name or stage name
In film
In music
In professional wrestling
Sport
Technology
Computing
Mechanical devices
Cleat (shoe) , a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
Track spikes , lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate
Nail (fastener) , or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
Spike strip , a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles
Spindle (stationery) , an upright spike used to hold papers
Other uses in technology
Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
Voltage spike , also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the
touch hole
Other uses
Spike, to add
alcohol or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff
Spike, a colloquial name for a
workhouse
Spike, Michigan , a former settlement
Needle spiking , alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
Tree spiking , a radical environmentalist tactic
Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis ), for the star
Spica
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