spadenoun
uk/speɪd/us/speɪd/spade noun (TOOL)
C2 [ C ] a tool used for digging especially soil or sand, with a long handle and a flat blade:
a garden spade
UK The kids took their buckets and spades to the beach.
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Gardening tools
- edger
- hedge trimmers
- hoe
- hose
- hover mower
- lawnmower
- motor mower
- mower
- rake
- rose
- scythe
- secateurs
- sprayer
- sprinkler
- Strimmer
- trowel
- watering can
- Weed Whacker
- wheelbarrow
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spade noun (CARD)
spades [ plural or U ]
one of the four suits in playing cards, represented by a black symbol like a pointed leaf with a short stem:
the ace/queen of spades
[ C ] a playing card from the suit of spades:
Don't you have any spades?
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- deal
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- royal flush
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- snap
- strip poker
- suit
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spade noun (PERSON)
[ C ] offensive old-fashioned an offensive word for a black person
Idiom(s)
in spades