Wiktionary
n. (&lit The playing card belonging to the spades suit and featuring one pip English)
WordNet
n. the ace of spades; sometimes taken as a portent of death
Wikipedia
The ace of spades (also known as the spadille) is traditionally the highest card in the deck of playing cards, at least in English-speaking countries. The actual value of the card varies from game to game. In legend and folklore, it is also known as the death card.
Ace of Spades is the fourth studio album by the band Motörhead, released 8 November 1980, on Bronze Records. It peaked at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart and reached Gold status by March 1981. It was preceded by the release of the title track as a single on 27 October, which peaked in the UK Singles Chart at No. 15 in early November.
It was the band's debut release in the United States, with Mercury Records handling distribution in North American.
"Ace of Spades" is a song by British rock band Motörhead, released in 1980 as a single and the title track to the album Ace of Spades.
Ace of Spades is the name of five fictional characters from DC Comics.
The ace of spades is commonly thought of as the highest-ranking card in the deck.
Ace of Spades may also refer to:
Ace of Spades is a 1925 American Western film serial directed by Henry MacRae. The film is considered to be lost.
Ace of Spades is a sandbox building and FPS game, originally developed by Ben Aksoy for the PC and released in 2011 as a beta version. In late 2012, RuneScape developer Jagex took over development of the game, making it payware on Steam and updating its gameplay.
The Ace of Spades roundabout is a road junction in Hook in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It is situated at the junction of the A243 Hook Road and the A3 Road, known as the Portsmouth Road, as well as the conclusion of the A309 Kingston Bypass.
It takes its name from a once well known 1930's roadhouse at the same location. The Ace of Spades Roadhouse was a pioneer roadhouse, serving meals 24hrs a day in a restaurant with seating for up to 800, dancing until 3 am, open air swimming pool, a miniature golf course, polo ground, riding school and an air strip. Acts such as Billie and Renée Houston as well as Collinson and Dean appeared there. Once spotted at the swimming pool was Diana Dors trying to teach Dennis Hamilton how to swim. The roadhouse eventually fell into decline and in the mid-1950s burnt down.
Later the Hook Underpass was dug, the first of its type in the country and featured as a model in the Science Museum. It initially had road surface heating powered by two local generators however this was eventually decommissioned. In the preceding months after opening it attracted motorcyclists keen to ride the underpass at high speed.
Today there is a traffic black spot during peak hours going northbound before the Hook underpass. The road reduces from three lanes to two in the underpass. The speed limit at this point reduces from 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), with the first of many GATSO speed enforcement cameras situated before the road bears to the right and under the bridge . The traffic from the A309 also joins just before the underpass. This section is often busy from about 7:50am to 8:30am and from 5:15pm to 5:50pm.
Usage examples of "ace of spades".
Then Gus, at the right time, came forward reluctantly and suspiciously, like a real Rube and not one of Charlie's comic turns, and cut the deck and chose a card: either Gus knew some sleight-of-hand herself or Willard had prepared a sharp test for me, because it was the Ace of Spades.
Having briefly snared the lead, David opened it, but Cole trumped in with the ace of spades.
Somewhere under those limes and beeches quiet men toting automatics with which they could pick the ace out of the ace of spades at twenty paces lurked.
She was black as the ace of spades and as beautiful as the sin you never had nerve enough to commit.
It would be like sorting through a pack of cards until you found the ace of spades, putting it on the table, and then claiming miraculous powers that unerringly accomplish a feat whose probability is one in 52.
Popeye trotted into the living room and dug through a pack of crumpled cards until she found the ace of spades, which she carried back to Possum.
In a world of light, more actinic than anything on Earth, reflected off water, there had been a nearly absolute selection for dark coloring: not a Nyanzan outside the city on Altla was any whiter than the ace of spades.