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Noun spade has 3 senses

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 spade
Derived 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

Verb spade has 1 sense

spade - dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower beds"
--₁ is one way to dig, delve, cut into, turn over

Derived form: noun spade₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something