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noun (1)

ˈpīk How to pronounce pike (audio)
Definition of pikenext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel you can take the pike all the way to the city

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pike

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noun (2)

as in spear
a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade a foot soldier armed with a pike

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pike

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noun (3)

as in tip
the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow the spear's metal pike was designed to cause a gaping wound when it was pulled out of the victim

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pike

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verb

as in to bayonet

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Recent Examples of pike
Noun
The weather was bad enough that MassDOT dropped the speed limit on the pike and forbid tandem trucks from the road. — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 17 Feb. 2025 Here, a breakdown of the key astrological events coming down the pike in 2025. — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range). — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023 Don't let your hips drop or pike up; pull your belly button up toward your spine and push the floor away from you with your hands. — Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pike
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pike
  1. bayonet
  2. quill
  3. thrust
  4. perforate
  5. prong
  6. knife
  7. riddle
  8. prick
Verb
  • There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
    — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
  • And anyway, always better to be bitten by a stingray than bayoneted.
    — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
Definition of bayonet
Verb
  • Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
    — CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Visitors can view a variety of media including textiles—such as Navajo artist D.Y. Begay’s Southwest landscape painting on wool—beadwork, sculpture, photography, film and even clothing attire such as beaded and quilled Louboutin shoes.
    — Lily Katzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
Definition of quill
Verb
  • Even after being thrust into the spotlight, though, the artist born Sooraj Cherukat keeps it real.
    — Isha Sharma, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But as Natalia is thrust into an unforgiving world and forced to grow up too fast, Reid’s performance takes on a world-weary tone.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of thrust
Verb
  • For paving, Liu used bricks perforated with holes and filled with soil, allowing grass to sprout through the middle.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The triangular perforated wall with its clever use of perspective serves as a seamless connection between the store’s interior and exterior by integrating the outdoor landscape with the in-store display.
    — WWD, WWD, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of perforate
Verb
  • The chat reportedly suggested the members had strong ties to the police force, which then brought police corruption into the multi-pronged scandal.
    — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2019
  • Apparently, there's now a new twist on the classic shape, looking a little more modern with an oval center stone and spiky pronged diamonds surrounding it.
    — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Aug. 2019
Definition of prong
Verb
  • Solis, using her quickness and tight handle, knifed her way through the Bulldogs’ defense and broke into paint repeatedly.
    — Devin Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article A 45-year-old woman was knifed to death during a bloody clash with her son in her Brooklyn home — despite the help of a good Samaritan who tried to stop the violence, police sources and neighbors said Saturday.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
Definition of knife
Verb
  • Startup costs and technological hurdles Social media is riddled with angry comments about this, with many students echoing Bittner's questions about how learning online could possibly cost more.
    — Jon Marcus, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s first term was riddled with unprecedented conflicts of interest.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of riddle
Verb
  • That was especially ripe to be pricked at a moment that is seeing the swearing-in of a new administration that has not exactly placed the protection of women’s rights or LGBTQ+ freedoms at the forefront of its agenda.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • For now at least, these people are stuck with pricking their fingers multiple times a day to get glucose measurements from their blood.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2018
Definition of prick

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