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 Translation for 'to spike sth' from English to Spanish
[echar alcohol or drogas en algo] to spike sth. [surreptitiously add alcohol or drugs]
Partial Matches
bot.
espiga {f}
spike
púa {f}spike
dep.
remate {m} [vóleibol]
spike [volleyball]
punta {f}spike [thin, pointed object]
alcanzar su máximoto spike [numbers, graph: to peak]
dep.
rematar una pelota
to spike a ball [volleyball]
hincar algo en algoto drive sth. into sth. [e.g. with a hammer]
cambiar algo por algoto trade sth. for sth. [esp. Am.] [swap, exchange]
cubrir algo con algoto strew sth. with. sth. [cover by scattering]
fin.
invertir algo en algo
to pump sth. into sth. [coll.] [idiom] [invest]
sumir a-algn/algo en algo [también fig.]to plunge sb./sth. into sth. [also fig.]
rezar para que algo/algn haga algoto pray that sb./sth. does sth.
dejar que algn/algo haga algo [esperar]to wait until sb./sth. does sth.
tener algo que ver con algoto have sth. to do with sth.
cubrir algo con algoto plaster sth. all over sth. [fig.]
apartar a-algn/algo de algoto urge sb./sth. away from sth.
estampar algo contra algoto fling sth. against sth. [intending to smash]
estrellar algo contra algoto hurl sth. against sth. [intending to break]
intercambiar algo por algoto barter sth. for sth. [trade, exchange]
abarrotar algo de algoto pack sth. with sth. [fill, stuff]
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Usage Examples English
  • The company was also ordered to spike all 3,000 guns at the Navy Yard within just a few hours.
  • After acquiring the website for $49 million, it was eventually rebranded to Spike.com and provided hosting of user-uploaded videos in a short-lived attempt to compete with YouTube (which Viacom had sued to remove user-generated uploads of its programming from), a strategy eventually abandoned to refocus Spike.com as a general network site.
  • Left-handed players generally prefer to play on the right side while right-handed players generally prefer to play on the left side, as it is easier to spike a ball that has not passed across the line of one's body.
  • In 1997, singers Artie Schroeck and Linda November directed a production in Atlantic City titled "The New City Slickers Present a Tribute to Spike Jones", with a band that attempted to re-create the style and humor of Jones's music.
  • In an interview on Channel 4 News, Donald paid tribute to Spike Milligan on his death and cited him and Monty Python as the two major influences on "Viz".

  • On their "If We Picked the Winners" special in March 1990, Ebert chose the film's Best Picture nomination as the worst nomination of the year, believing it took a slot that could have gone to Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing".
  • Austria has decommissioned its HOT-carrying tank destroyers, while Spain is transitioning to Spike missiles to replace their HOT missile inventory.
  • Watts joined the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in 2000, losing to Spike Dudley in his ECW Arena debut. He remained with the promotion for two months before departing.
  • The most notable was the game-winning touchdown, which was the result of Marino faking out the Jets defense by indicating he was going to spike the ball to stop the clock.
  • This leads Bengsston to his conclusion on what may have caused mortality rates in infants to spike during winter: "The strong protective effect of summer for neonatal deaths leads us to suppose that in many cases, these might be due to the insufficient heating systems of the houses or to the exposure of the newborn to cold during the baptism ceremony.

  • For "Fast Machines with Funkmaster Flex", Flex returned to Spike TV to focus on making muscle and modern car customization for celebrities.
  • As the Artillerymen's spiking party were unable to spike the Russian guns the Gunners helped and carried as many of the wounded infantrymen to safety as they could.
  • andrewsi" bore two small, peg to spike-like teeth that were located on the underside of each premaxilla.
  • The Great Tenpō famine of the 1830s was a devastating period in which the whole of Japan suffered rapidly decreasing temperatures and loss of crops, and in turn, merchant prices began to spike.
  • According to Spike Milligan, the columns were an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, "The Goon Show".

  • in which The Coca-Cola Company updated the formula to its signature drink before quickly changing it back after negative publicity, leading to rumors that the company simply did so in an effort to spike sales.
  • In the "Newtype" magazine from August 2001, he was voted as the second best male character losing to Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop".
  • The band contributed the song "My Fantasy" to the soundtrack to Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing" in 1989.
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