Color Names

Spike

Cool purple-grey metal, sharp at the point and dull everywhere else.

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Spike is a cool grey, close to purple.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Spike

The Spike (novel)

The Spike is a 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss. Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting Newsweek journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias.

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Damien Broderick

Damien Francis Broderick was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with the first usage of the term virtual reality in science fiction, in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala.

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Spike (missile)

Spike is an Israeli fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missile and anti-personnel missile with a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead. As of 2024, it is in its sixth generation. It was developed and designed by the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is available in man-portable, vehicle-launched, helicopter-launched and maritime variants.

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Spike

Proper noun

  1. A male nickname.

Proper noun

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
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