James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.In 1987, Mr Salvigsen again hit a home run when he forecast that interest rates would spike up.She was looking particularly uncompromising today, tired and pale, her dark, short hair spiking up at the back.Anti-logging activists often spike trees to prevent them from being cut down.The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.New telephone line orders have spiked in the last two years.3 PUSH to push a sharp tool or object into something 4 PREVENT to prevent someone from saying something or printing something in a newspaper a clumsy attempt to spike rumours of a cabinet split 5 a) spike the ball American English to powerfully throw an American football down on the ground to celebrate a touchdown b) to powerfully hit a volleyball down over the net 6 → spike somebody’s guns → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus spike 2 if the number or rate of something spikes, it increases quickly and by a large amount New telephone orders have spiked in the last two years. What would some one have thought, had he looked on the seat and seen those spikes there? Related topics: Drink spike spike 2 verb 1 DFD to secretly add strong alcohol or a drug to someone’s drink or food spike something with something The orange juice had been spiked with gin.
Who can forget the rage, the gait, the spike jammed into the fringed brow, the smoldering eyes?.His head must have fallen almost directly on top of one of the tall spikes that surmounted the old iron rail.From the centre of the rosette sprang a single five-inch stalk with a small spike of closed white flowers at its end.The bottom line is, the latest price spike has left motorists feeling angry and political leaders looking for somebody to blame.A row of spikes lined the top of the wall.
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