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noun (1)

ˈpīk How to pronounce pike (audio)
Definition of pikenext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel you can take the pike all the way to the city

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pike

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noun (2)

as in spear
a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade a foot soldier armed with a pike

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pike

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noun (3)

as in tip
the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow the spear's metal pike was designed to cause a gaping wound when it was pulled out of the victim

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pike

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verb

as in to bayonet

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Recent Examples of pike
Noun
Pipeline updates In the pharmaceutical industry, there's always a focus on what's coming down the pike because patents don't last forever. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Continue reading … 'SERIOUS SEXISM' — El-Sayed explains ‘ogre on a pike’ remark after getting torched by his own party. — FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
Verb
While the gold seemed all-but hers, Andrade came up short on her second vault, a comparatively simple Lopez vault, piking down and stepping over the line to incur a neutral deduction. — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026 This works best for larger pike fillets (pike in the 22-inch to 30-inch range). — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pike
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pike
  1. road
  2. spear
  3. tip
  4. bayonet
  5. street
  6. javelin
  7. end
  8. quill
Noun
  • Authorities on Wednesday pre-emptively announced that roads leading to the port would be closed to non-emergency vehicles for seven days, according to state media.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Under the new collective bargaining agreement, each NHL team must sign a permanent emergency backup who will be at every home game and travel with the team to all road games (like a bullpen catcher in Major League Baseball).
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • The kitchen’s electrical oven roasts them during the daytime; they’re then chilled and served cold, with hot sauce, a ramekin of mayonnaise, and a pile of pickle spears.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Over the course of the 95-minute run time, Cole will also deploy knives, a fire ax, a fishing spear, various firearms, and his very capable fists to take out foes, but the lock marks a high point in terms of situation-specific ingenuity.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of spear
Noun
  • Anyone with information related to the cases can contact the police department at 510-238-3821 or the tip line at 510-238-7950.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • According to the criminal complaint, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received several tips regarding Eyde’s internet activity on Discord, a messaging application.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of tip
Verb
  • Of the 300,000 Chinese slaughtered by the Japanese Imperial Army during a six-week period, most were civilians who were were bayoneted, machine-gunned and burned alive.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There were injuries this time, with some students bayoneted for not retreating.
    — Paula Schleis, cincinnati.com, 2 May 2020
Definition of bayonet
Noun
  • Weeks before the war, Iranians took to the streets to protest rising costs and inflation.
    — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Among the changes needed on the city’s streets was the welding of more than 200 manhole covers to ensure the race cars don’t suck them up off the road.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • The feeling came again when Wright, who played hockey, netball, tennis and javelin at county level in her teens, turned her hand to rugby.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • One of the most memorable is witnessing the Maasai Games, where warriors compete in events such as sprinting, javelin throwing, high jump, and rungu throwing.
    — Nicola Shepherd, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of javelin
Noun
  • Today, transformation is no longer an initiative with a beginning and an end.
    — Billee Howard, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The New York Jets, who waived Eric Watts earlier this month, signed defensive end Nathan Voorhis as an undrafted free agent.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of end
Verb
  • Then Kekere-Ekun will quill piece by piece using colored paper, ribbons and parts of canvases before it's eventually completed.
    — CNN, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For six weeks last summer the DC-8 and a pair of Twin Otters similarly quilled with atmospheric-sampling instruments flew through more than 100 different columns.
    — Kyle Dickman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
Definition of quill

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