Spade (disambiguation)

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A spade is a digging and gardening tool.

Spade or Spades may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards
• Spades, a trick-taking card game
• The Spade, a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker
• "Spade", a song from The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson
• Spade, an otter who starred in the British film Tarka the Otter

Places

• Spades, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Spade Township, Knox County, Nebraska, United States
• Spade, Texas, a census designated place
• Spade Ranch (Nebraska), a cattle ranch
• Spade Ranch (Texas), two ranches

People

• Spade, an ethnic slur for a black person
• Andy Spade, American entrepreneur, brother of David Spade
• Bob Spade (1877–1924), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor
• Dean Spade (born 1977), American lawyer, writer and academic
• Dudley Spade (born 1956), American politician
• Henri Spade (1921–2008), French journalist, television producer and novelist
• Kate Spade (1962–2018), American designer, co-founder of Kate Spade New York
• Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality, convicted of murdering his second wife
• Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), English novelist and screenwriter who wrote for Punch magazine under the name Mark Spade
• Mixmaster Spade, hip hop pioneer

Fictional characters

• Sam Spade, a private detective in the novel The Maltese Falcon, three short stories and various films
• Samantha Spade, on Without a Trace
• Spade, a fictional character from the video game Freedom Planet

Software

• SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly
• SPADE (software development tool), also known as SMART Process Acceleration Development Environment.

Other uses

• Spade, an early form of currency in China
• Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle
• SPADE, short for Settable Pneumatic Altitude Detection fuzing device, developed by HDL
• Call a spade a spade, a figurative expression, meaning to speak plainly and bluntly.
• Spade, an aircraft aileron component.

See also

• Spade House, home of writer H. G. Wells from 1901 to 1909
• Spayed, past tense form of the verb "to spay"
• SPAD (disambiguation)