spikes someone's guns
spikes someone's guns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spike someone's guns.
Meaning of spike someone's guns
Verb
spike someone's guns (third-person singular simple present spikes someone's guns, present participle spiking someone's guns, simple past and past participle spiked someone's guns)
- To frustrate a person's efforts or designs; to undercut, to render helpless.
- But whatever the Russians may have felt (and, apparently, still do feel) about Shakespear, his superiors were delighted by the way he had so skilfully spiked the Tsar's guns by liberating his subjects.1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 205
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