Usually means: Sharp points protruding; rough texture.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word spiky:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spiky: Merriam-Webster
  3. spiky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spiky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spiky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spiky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spiky, spiky: Wordnik
  8. spiky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spiky: Wiktionary
  10. spiky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spiky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spiky: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spiky: Dictionary.com
  14. Spiky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. spiky: Rhymezone
  16. Spiky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. spiky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. spiky: FreeDictionary.org
  19. spiky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. spiky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. spiky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spiky: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Spiky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spikier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having spikes, spiny.
adjective:  Of hair, erect, resembling spikes.
adjective:  (figurative) hostile; standoffish

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