Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips
Furnished with a pike; ending in a point
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pike
pikel
piker
piker
noun
(Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
(US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
(military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
A stingy person; a cheapskate.
A tramp; a vagrant.
An amateur.
One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
pikes
pikes
noun
plural of pike
pikey
pikey
adj
(UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.
Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
noun
(UK, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to Romani or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates.
(informal) A pike (fish).
verb
(UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.
pikle
pisek
pokie
pokie
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang, chiefly in the plural) A poker machine.
(informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.
spike
spike
noun
(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
(music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
(slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
(software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
(theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
(volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A sort of very large nail.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
An ear of corn or grain.
Spike lavender.
The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
verb
(American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
(figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
(military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
(slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.