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[syn: peaky, spiky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spiky \Spik"y\ (sp[imac]k"[y^]), a.
1. Like a spike; spikelike.
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These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors.
--C. A. Young.
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2. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed
with spikes.
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Or by the spiky harrow cleared away. --Dyer.
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The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore.
--Pope.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spiky
adj 1: having or as if having especially high-pitched spots;
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass" [syn:
peaky, spiky]