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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
Hicks’s fish topped the previous Idaho catch-and-release pike by ¾ inch, caught by Scott Blahnik in 2020 from Coeur d’Alene Lake. — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 23 July 2026 The pike is a dynamic but destabilizing force on the body, which is excellent for balance recovery. — Mallory Creveling, Health, 9 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
  • What’s different this time is getting to the Diner, as both Santa Monica Blvd (which the Diner faces) and Sunset Blvd are seeing extended road work – some of it due to a water main that burst on July 16.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Two Boston city councilors are pushing for a change in city law that would require Mayor Michelle Wu to report street projects annually as Wu faces criticism for stalling road work before a city employee was killed by a truck.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • After neutralizing Tozawa, Breakker hit another super spear on Otis with Maxxine looking on from the top rope.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Their ability to absorb the energy of colliding cars—forcing rails to curl up, rather than spear—is the result of decades of clever engineering.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of spear
Noun
  • Insider tip All of the yurts and tents have jawdropping views.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
  • The resort is at the northern tip of Wrightsville Beach, which is a 130-mile drive southeast from downtown Raleigh.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 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
  • The picture will brighten considerably if one of those players, Macario, who wore street clothes, can make it back this season and show the form that earned her the largest contract in NWSL history.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2026
  • That evening, midnight-shift officers spotted the animal trotting on a residential street in the area and slowly pursued it in a patrol vehicle, some of which was shown in a short video clip the police department posted on social media Friday.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 26 July 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • Nebraska's Dyson Wicker won the pole vault at an NCAA-leading 19-2 1/4, and Texas A&M senior Zaza Nnamdi took javelin at 269-10.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • In the girls field events, South Hadley’s Natalie Rios threw her personal best and achieved third best javelin throw in the state at 125-04.
    — Hannah Hughes, Boston Herald, 7 June 2026
Definition of javelin
Noun
  • According to the company’s launch announcement, GoMining introduced GoBTC Pay, a Bitcoin payment protocol that uses its own mining pool to prioritize transaction confirmation and targets 12-hour final on-chain settlement by the end of 2026.
    — Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • The policy’s cost to the state has ballooned into the billions as the industry grows and evolves, prompting some state officials to call for an end to the tax break.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 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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