Definitions for pikes

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pikes pike

Spelling: [pahyk]

IPA: /paɪk/

Pikes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in pikes (eikps).

Definitions for pikes

noun

1. any of several large, slender, voracious freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, having a long, flat snout: the blue pike of the Great Lakes is now extinct.
2. any of various superficially similar fishes, as the walleye or pikeperch.
3. a shafted weapon having a pointed head, formerly used by infantry.
4. a toll road or highway; turnpike road.
5. a turnpike or tollgate.
6. the toll paid at a tollgate.
7. a hill or mountain with a pointed summit.
8. a sharply pointed projection or spike.
9. the pointed end of anything, as of an arrow or a spear.
10. a body position, resembling a V shape, in which the back and head are bent forward and the legs lifted and held together, with the hands touching the feet or backs of the knees or the arms extended sideways. Compare layout (def 10), tuck1 (def 13).
11. James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.
12. Zebulon Montgomery [zeb-yoo-luh n] /ˈzɛb yʊ lən/ (Show IPA), 1779–1813, U.S. general and explorer.

Idioms

1. come down the pike, Informal. to appear or come forth:

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce, wound, or kill with or as with a pike.

verb (used without object)

1. to go, leave, or move along quickly.

Origin of pikes

1275-1325; Middle English; so called from its pointed snout (see pike⁵)

Examples for pikes

With lights flashing, the cruiser arrived at the Blooming Grove State Police barracks in pike County.

Quite and clane the contrary—when the shillelah's up, the pike's down.

But far eastward on the pike there slowly developed a soft, white haze.

Many probably believed he would emerge from the side carrying a pike with the head of a banker.

Once a month he preaches in a little church on the 'pike near there.

And saying this he stabbed him with his pike in the face, and the blood spurted forth.

Then he crept out of the room, got on the mare, and rode up the pike.

pike was engaged to her Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright—but the wedding was called off in 2008.

And of course we have health care coming down the pike, and all its subsidies to families up to 188 percent of the poverty line.

Check out the popular bakery Piroshky Piroshky in pike Place Market for some Eastern European stuffed delights.