- spade - a playing card in the major suit of spades
--1 is a kind of playing card
--1 is a member of major suit- spade - a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
--2 is a kind of hand shovel
--2 has particulars: ditch spade, long-handled spade; garden spadeDerived form: verb spade1 - nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra - (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
--3 is a kind of Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
- spade - a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot