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Definition: Spik |
SpikNoun1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spik" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
"Spik" is a common misspelling or typo for: Skip, Spec, Spice, Spicy, Spike, Spiky, Spin, Spit. |
Synonyms: SpikSynonyms: spic (n), spick (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spik |
| Etymologies containing "spik": spick. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spik" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Faeroese (bacon), Swedish (hobnail, nail, tack). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because you are marry you do not wish to spik of love! (The Bad Man; writing credit: Porter Emerson Browne; Howard Estabrook) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Io no spik inglish (1995) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spik | 7 |
spik tv | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spik": spike, spiked, spikelet, spikelets, spikelike, spikenard, spikenards, spiker, spikers, spikes, spikey, spikier, spikiest, spikily, spikiness, spikinesses, spiking, spiks, spiky. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spik": handspike, handspikes, marlinespike, marlinespikes, marlinspike, marlinspikes, muspike, muspikes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kips, skip. | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-p-s" | |
-1 letter: kip, pis, psi, sip, ski. | |
-2 letters: is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-p-s" | |
+1 letter: kepis, paiks, picks, pikas, pikes, pikis, pinks, skimp, skips, spick, spike, spiks, spiky. | |
+2 letters: okapis, pekins, pikers, pinkos, plinks, plisky, pokies, pricks, prinks, skimps, skimpy, spicks, spiked, spiker, spikes, spikey, tupiks. | |
+3 letters: bipacks, imparks, inkpots, kaliphs, kelpies, kickups, kidnaps, kinship, kippers, kipskin, koppies, linkups, milksop, miskeep, miskept, muspike, napkins, peakish, peckish, perkish, peskier, peskily, pickers, pickets, pickles, pickups, pigskin, pikakes, pinkens, pinkers, pinkest, pinkeys, pinkies, pinkish, pinkoes, pipkins, pliskie, pokiest, porkies, puckish, punkies, punkins, punkish, puslike, pyknics, skelpit, skepsis, skeptic, skimped, skipped, skipper, skippet, skyphoi, spikers, spikier, spikily, spiking, spoking, spunkie, sputnik, stickup, unpicks, uplinks, upticks, wikiups. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 70 69 6B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. .. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110000 01101001 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S p i k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0070 0069 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53827577 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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