spades

Meanings

Noun

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
  • "spades were trumps"
• a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
• (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
• plural of spade
• One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.
• A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.

Verb

• dig (up) with a spade
• third-person singular simple present indicative of spade

Synonyms

coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade

Related Words

clubs, diamonds, hearts, spade, ♠, ♤