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spade is a digging and gardening tool.
Spade or Spades may also refer to:
Cards
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Spades (card game)
Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s. It can be played as either a partnership or solo/"cutthroat" game. The object is to take the number of tricks that were bid before play of the hand began. Spades is a ...
, a trick-taking card game
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Spades (suit)
Spades () () is one of the four playing card suits in the standard French-suited playing cards. It has the same shape as the Leaves (suit), leaf symbol in German-suited playing cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black ...
, one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards
Music
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The Spade'', a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker
* "Spade", a song from ''
The Golden Age of Grotesque'' by Marilyn Manson
* The Spades, first notable band of
Roky Erickson
Places
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Spades, Indiana, an unincorporated community
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Spade Township, Knox County, Nebraska, United States
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Spade, Texas, a census designated place
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Spade Ranch (Nebraska), a cattle ranch
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Spade Ranch (Texas), two ranches
Software
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SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly
*SMART Process Acceleration Development Environment
Other uses
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Spade (political party), a Ukrainian agrarian party
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Toyota Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle
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Sam Spade, a fictional detective created by Dashiell Hammett
*Spade, a character from ''
Freedom Planet
''Freedom Planet'' is a 2014 Platformer, platform video game developed and published by GalaxyTrail. The player controls one of three anthropomorphic animal protagonists: the dragon girl Lilac, the wildcat Carol, or the basset hound Milla. Aided ...
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*Spade, an otter in ''
Tarka the Otter''
*Spade, a form of
ancient Chinese coinage
Ancient Chinese coinage includes some of the earliest known coins. These coins, used as early as the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE), took the form of imitations of the cowrie shells that were used in ceremonial exchanges. The s ...
*Spade, an aircraft
aileron
An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. Ailerons are used in pairs to control the aircraft in roll (or movement aroun ...
component
*Spade, an
ethnic slur
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pej ...
for a black person
People with the name
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Andy Spade, American entrepreneur, brother of David Spade
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Bob Spade (1877–1924), American Major League Baseball pitcher
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David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor
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Dean Spade (born 1977), American lawyer, writer and academic
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Doug Spade (born 1951), American politician
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Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
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Henri Spade (1921–2008), French journalist, television producer and novelist
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Kate Spade (1962–2018), American designer, co-founder of Kate Spade New York
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Mark Spade, pseudonym of Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), English psychologist, novelist and screenwriter
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Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality, convicted of murdering his second wife
See also
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Call a spade a spade, a figurative expression, meaning to speak plainly and bluntly
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SPAD (disambiguation)
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Spade House, home of writer H. G. Wells from 1901 to 1909
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Spayed, past tense form of the verb "to spay"
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