Spike

Books • The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave • The Spike (Broderick book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick • The Spike, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void Comics • Spike (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson • Spike (IDW Publishing), an American comic book series featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Film and television • Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage • Spike (dog actor) • Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network • 5Spike, a former localized British version of the American channel • Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel • Spike (Dutch TV channel), a localized version of the American channel • "Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series Music • Spike (Agata album), 2004 • Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001 • Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989 • Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments • "Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Southern Accents • "Spike", a song by The Network from the album Money Money 2020 • "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit Periodicals • Spike Art Magazine, an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004 • Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996 Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media • Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike • Spike (company), a video game company • Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story • Spike (stagecraft), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors • Spike (video game), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system ==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 • Spike (nickname), a list of people • Spike (surname), a list of people • Spikes (surname), a list of people People with the name or stage name In film • Spike Jonze, an American filmmaker • Spike Lee, an American filmmaker In music • Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys • Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams • Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect • Spike Jones, American bandleader and humorist • Spike Slawson, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes • Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band Corporate Avenger In professional wrestling • Spike Dudley, the ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970) • Moondog Spike, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson • Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association • Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters ==Sport==

• Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football • Spike (volleyball), a form of volleyball attack • Spikes (mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings • State College Spikes, a baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League • Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction ==Technology==

Computing • Spike (application), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format • Spike (database), a biological database • Spiking (fintech), a social trading platform • Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task • SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations • Spike, a command in Microsoft Word 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 • Rail spike, used to construct railroad tracks • Screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks • 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) • NAVAIR Spike • 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 • Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug • 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 • Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia ==See also==