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spike
noun- a syringe and needle; a hypodermic needle US, 1936
- Life telescopes down to junk, one fix and looking forward to the next, “stashes” and “scripts,” “spikes” and “droppers.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 35, 1953
- There goes my last spike! — Jack Gerber, The Connection, p. 85, 1957
- “This,” he said to Patterson, selecting one of the items, “is what most addicts call a spike. You can see all of it consists of is an everyday eye-dropper, a baby’s pacifier, tightened at the top with a rubber band, and a size-25 hypodermic needle.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 82, 1960
- They didn’t find the heroin but they found two spikes and with his marks and the girl’s evidence that was enough. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 106, 1960
- That spike doesn’t make you a junkie. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 230, 1961
- “Willie, my man, I missed my vein,” cried Mike with a spike in his arm. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 205, 1962
- “Mainlining” is shooting heroin directly into a vein by means of a hypodermic needle (John S. calls it a “spike”). — Donald Louria, Nightmare Drugs, p. 9, 1966
- When he awakes in the morning, he reaches instantly for his “works”–eyedropper, needle (“spike,” he calls it), and bottle top (“cooker”). — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 14, 1966
- Silently they watched him mix a deck of heroin and a deck of cocaine, light the lamp and cook it in a spoon, load the spike. — Chester Himes, Come Back Charleston Blue, p. 65, 1966
- Cause it makes me feel like I’m a man / When I put a spike into my vein. — Velvet Underground Heroin, 1967
- Hip stayed at a rented room with a junkie girl with whom he’d taken off, after using her spike and giving her a share of his stuff. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 137, 1968
- “Sweet” finally got the “spike” out of the tie lining. I was too weak to shoot the “H” when he got it cooked. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 100, 1969
- All the losers went for the spike and the dynamite high behind it. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 11, 1975
- We bought two droppers and a couple of spikes–needles–No. 26-half inch and some wires for cleaning them. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 82, 1980
- a mixture of heroin and scopolamine or strychnine UK
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 210, 2002
- in a deck of playing cards, an ace US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 84, 1988
- in volleyball, hitting the ball downward with great force from the top of a jump US
- — Bonnie Robison, Sports Illustrated Volleyball, p. 95, 1972
- a casual ward (a temporary accommodation facility for vagrants) UK, 1866
- The other had spike (casual ward) written all over him, a real roadster [tramp], and a ruddy hairy one. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 198, 1956
▶ the spike
the hypodermic syringe as a symbol of drug addiction UK- [H]e had tried to get off the “spike” (needle), but had tried most of the other drugs on the black market and now lived by pushing and on Supplementary Benefit. — Robin Page, Down Among the Dossers, p. 28, 1973
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