"Spike" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From spike, variously from having spiky hair, being thin (like a railroad spike), etc.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
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          "ref": "1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature, page 418:",
          "text": "This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.",
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          "ref": "2013, Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 238:",
          "text": "He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.",
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        "A male nickname."
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      "rhymes": "-aɪk"
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  "word": "Spike"
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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "From spike, perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.",
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        "A surname transferred from the nickname."
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    {
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  "word": "Spike"
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  "etymology_text": "From spike, variously from having spiky hair, being thin (like a railroad spike), etc.",
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          "ref": "1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature, page 418:",
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          "ref": "2013, Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 238:",
          "text": "He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.",
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  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "From spike, perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.",
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