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- noun Plural form of
spade . - noun One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol
♠ . - noun A
card game in which the spade suit cards aretrumps . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
spade .
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Examples
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The only thing Haiti has in spades is garbage, feces, and well, spades.
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What I have used, in spades, is the modeling and 'systematizing' skills I learned from studying physics.
Show Me the Way, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hopefully you will pull out some of the same nuggets that I did … gaining a new perspective from someone who has done it and done it in spades is really really powerful for me.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Todd McFarlane Interview… 2008
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I’m glad you asked about breast cancer awareness, because it angers me a great deal (pisses me off in spades, is what I started to type, but let’s keep it clean, hmm?) when people or organizations poach like that.
Another reason to think before you buy pink « Dating Jesus 2009
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If so, it'll hit south of the border in spades, just like this last recession.
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If so, it'll hit south of the border in spades, just like this last recession.
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You've had your chance in spades to claim how great immigration is.
UKIP playing the race card in Norwich North ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.
Safety in lakeside 2009
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So who's failing to communicate/negotiate – it's the democrats in spades!
Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out' 2009
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If so, it'll hit south of the border in spades, just like this last recession.
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