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ALL meanings of spade

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  • noun spade a black figure shaped like an inverted heart and with a short stem at the cusp opposite the point, used on playing cards. 1
  • noun spade a card of the suit bearing such figures. 1
  • noun Technical meaning of spade Specification Processing And Dependency Extraction. Specification language. G.S. Boddy, ICL Mainframes Div, FLAG/UD/3DR.003 1
  • noun spade spades. (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked: Spades is trump. Spades count double. (used with a plural verb) Casino. the winning of seven spades or more. 1
  • noun spade Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person. 1
  • verb with object spade to dig, cut, or remove with a spade (sometimes followed by up): Let's spade up the garden and plant some flowers. 1
  • idioms spade call a spade a spade, to call something by its real name; be candidly explicit; speak plainly or bluntly: To call a spade a spade, he's a crook. 1
  • idioms spade in spades, Informal. in the extreme; positively: He's a hypocrite, in spades. without restraint; outspokenly: I told him what I thought, in spades. 1
  • noun spade digging tool 1
  • noun spade cards: suit 1
  • noun spade black person 1
  • intransitive verb spade dig 1
  • countable noun spade A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle. 0
  • uncountable noun spade Spades is one of the four suits in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more black symbols: ♠. 0
  • uncountable noun spade A spade is a playing card of this suit. 0
  • noun spade a tool for digging, typically consisting of a flat rectangular steel blade attached to a long wooden handle 0
  • noun spade an object or part resembling a spade in shape 0
  • noun spade (as modifier) 0
  • noun spade a heavy metallic projection attached to the trail of a gun carriage that embeds itself into the ground and so reduces recoil 0
  • noun spade a type of oar blade that is comparatively broad and short 0
  • noun spade a cutting tool for stripping the blubber from a whale or skin from a carcass 0
  • verb spade to use a spade on 0
  • noun spade the black symbol on a playing card resembling a heart-shaped leaf with a stem 0
  • noun spade a card with one or more of these symbols or (when pl) the suit of cards so marked, usually the highest ranking of the four 0
  • noun spade a heavy, flat-bladed, long-handled tool used for digging by pressing the metal blade into the ground with the foot 0
  • noun spade any of several tools resembling a spade 0
  • noun spade a part of the trail of a gun carriage which digs into the ground, so as to brace the gun during recoil 0
  • verb transitive spade to dig or cut with or as with a spade 0
  • noun spade any of a suit of playing cards marked with black figures shaped like this: ♠ 0
  • noun spade this suit of cards 0
  • noun spade black (sense 20) 0
  • abbreviation SPADE spay 0
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