Definition of "Spike"

This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.

1995, Donna E. Norton, Through the eyes of a child: an introduction to children's literature, page 418

He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.

2013, Zadie Smith, N-W, Hamish Hamilton, page 238