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spades
spade 1 S0599500 (spād)n.1. A sturdy digging tool having a thick handle and a heavy, flat blade that can be pressed into the ground with the foot.2. Any of various similar digging or cutting tools.tr.v. spad·ed, spad·ing, spades To dig or cut with a spade.Idiom: call a spade a spade To speak plainly and forthrightly.
[Middle English, from Old English spadu.]
spad′er n.
spade 2 S0599500 (spād)n.1. Games a. A black, leaf-shaped figure on certain playing cards.b. A playing card with this figure.c. also spades(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person.Idiom: in spades To a considerable degree: They had financial trouble in spades.
[Italian spade, pl. of spada, card suit, from Latin spatha, sword, broad-bladed stirrer, from Greek spathē, broad blade.]spades - As a suit in a deck of cards, it has nothing to do with spades as tools, but comes from Spanish espada, "sword."See also related terms for sword.Translationsspade2 (speid) noun one of the playing-cards of the suit spades. (一張)黑桃牌 （一张）黑桃牌 spades noun plural (sometimes treated as noun singular) one of the four card suits. the ten of spades. 一副黑桃(牌) 一副黑桃（牌） EncyclopediaSeespadeSPADES
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