spokeverb
uk/spəʊk/us/spoʊk/past simple of speak
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- confab
- conversation-stopper
- exchange
- gas
- jaw
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- vox pop
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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spokenoun [ C ]
uk/spəʊk/us/spoʊk/any of the rods that join the edge of a wheel to its centre, so giving the wheel its strength:
a bicycle spoke
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- baton
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- stake
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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Bicycles
Idiom(s)
put a spoke in sb's wheel