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spike up

spike up verb: to cause to become spiky.

Verb

spike up (third-person singular simple present spikes up, present participle spiking up, simple past and past participle spiked up)

  1. (transitive) to cause to become spiky
    • spike up your hair
  2. (intransitive) to become spiky
    • His hair spiked up
  3. (intransitive) to increase sharply
    • Prices are bound to spike up during high season

Forms of spike up

third-person singular presentspikes up
present participlespiking up
past participlespiked up
pastspiked up

Questions about spike up

What does spike up mean?
Spike up means to cause to become spiky.
What part of speech is spike up?
Spike up is a verb.
What is the past tense of spike up?
The past tense of spike up is spiked up.

Words near spike up in the dictionary

  1. spike strips
  2. spike team
  3. spike teams
  4. spike train
  5. spike trains
  6. spike up
  7. Spike's disease
  8. spike-cap
  9. spike-caps
  10. spike-in
  11. spike-ins

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