(ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot a playing card in the major suit of spades dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds
A spade is a tool used for digging, with a flat metal blade and a long handle. a garden spade The girls happily played in the sand with buckets and spades
approval If you say that someone calls a spade a spade, you mean that they speak clearly and directly about things, even embarrassing or unpleasant things. I'm not at all secretive, and I'm pretty good at calling a spade a spade
In audio, one possible termination for speaker cables A spade connector is a 1/4" or 5/8" metal prong that fits around the central shaft and between the nut and contact plate of a speaker binding post