Spade (disambiguation)

A spade is a digging and gardening tool.

Spade or Spades may also refer to:

Cards

• Spades (card game), a trick-taking card game
• Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards

Music

• The Spade, a 2011 studio album by Butch Walker
• "Spade", a song from The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson
• The Spades, first notable band of Roky Erickson

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

Software

• SPAdes (software), a set of tools for genomic sequence assembly
• SMART Process Acceleration Development Environment

Other uses

• Spade (political party), a Ukrainian agrarian party
• Toyota Spade, a variant of the Toyota Porte mini multi-purpose vehicle
• Sam Spade, a fictional detective created by Dashiell Hammett
• Spade, a character from Freedom Planet
• Spade, an otter in Tarka the Otter
• Spade, a form of ancient Chinese coinage
• Spade, an aircraft aileron component
• Spade, an ethnic slur for a black person

People with the name

• 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
• Doug Spade (born 1951), American politician
• 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
• Mark Spade, pseudonym of Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), English psychologist, novelist and screenwriter
• Spade Cooley (1910–1969), American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality, convicted of murdering his second wife

See also

• Call a spade a spade, a figurative expression, meaning to speak plainly and bluntly
• SPAD (disambiguation)
• Spade House, home of writer H. G. Wells from 1901 to 1909
• Spayed, past tense form of the verb "to spay"