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Meaning of spade

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  spade
      n 1: a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black
           figures on it; "she led a low spade"; "spades were trumps"
      2: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with
         the foot
      3: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person;
         "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: {nigger},
         {nigga}, {spade}, {coon}, {jigaboo}, {nigra}]
      v 1: dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower
           beds"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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