spades

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one of the four suits in playing cards, represented by a black symbol like a pointed leaf with a short stem:

of spades One of my favourite tricks is to take the ace/queen of spades out of someone's top pocket.

Who has all the spades, then?

I keep picking up spades.

All I needed was the king of spades.

If you'd played the four of spades, we would have won.

She picked up the six of spades.

one of the four suits (= groups) of playing cards, the symbol for which is a black pointed leaf with a small stem