pike

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Related topics: Fish, Weapons, Roads

pike /paɪk/ noun [countableC]

HBF (plural pike) a large fish that eats other fish and lives in rivers and lakes 狗鱼 →4 See picture of 见图 FRESHWATER

2. PMWa long-handled weapon with a sharp blade, used in the past 〔古时士兵使用的〕长矛，长枪

3 come down the pike American EnglishAmE to happen or become known 发生；显现

The world is being turned upside down by the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike.

一连串多媒体技术的问世令整个世界发生了天翻地覆的变化。

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come down the pike• Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.• Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?

4. TTR American EnglishAmE spoken a turnpike （收费）高速公路

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pike• The personal best pike measured a massive 45 inches with a girth of 24 inches and was returned alive.• Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• A 21-pound pike was caught there recently.• Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?• Authorities said they were sending biologists to Delliker Pond to determine whether pike were present there.

Origin pike

1. (1300-1400) pike “sharp pointed object” ((11-20 centuries)), from Old English pic

2. (1500-1600) French pique

3. (1800-1900) turnpike

pike noun

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