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spades

nounnounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States//speɪdz//

One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of spadeplural of spade

noun

  1. 1

    One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

  2. 2

    A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

    Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of spadethird-person singular simple present indicative of spade

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).