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piikki

“piikki” is a Finnish word. Its 23 meanings in English:

  1. Any of a number of small and sharp objects:
  2. spike (very large nail or something resembling it in shape)
  3. tine, prong (thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool)
  4. awl (pointed tool)
  5. spindle (upright spike for holding papers)
  6. point (object with sharp tip)
  7. syringe needle
  8. syringe
  9. vaccination, shot
  10. Any of a number of small and sharp natural features:
  11. thorn, spine
  12. thorn
  13. quill (sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog)
  14. ray (bony reinforcing in a fish's fin)
  15. spike (sharp increase in demand of anything, sharp peak in graph)
  16. tooth (spore on a tooth- or spine-like projection)
  17. lead (leading position, especially in horseracing)
  18. tab, slate (record of money owed)
  19. In expressions related to attributing or accounting something, especially with the verb laittaa.
  20. ellipsis of piikkikenkä (“spike, a running shoe with spikes in the sole”)
  21. ellipsis of jääpiikki (“ice pick”)
  22. pike (very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers)
  23. number 25, or something characterized by this number
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