spike
The term "drink spiking" refers to drugs or alcohol being added to a drink without the consent of the person consuming it.
A nightclub has been criticized for telling customers "it's in your hands to protect yourself" from spikings.
Sexual assault is not always the motive for needle spiking.
Three universities reported incidents of injection spiking.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drinking alcohol
abstinence
abstinence-only
after hoursidiom
bar-hop
barhopping
drinker
drinking
drinking game
drinking habit
drinking-up time
drown
hangover
imbibe
lash
on the boozeidiom
on the lashidiom
on the pissidiom
out of hoursidiom
outdrink
ply

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Examples of spiking

spiking
Spiking tended to occur on the depolarizing crest of such oscillations with depolarization and, thus, in a similar gamma range of frequencies.
The transition from molecular chaos to coherent spiking can be understood as emergence of a functional structure in the originally uniform population.
Secondly, ipsilateral stimulation generated relatively prolonged discharges of low-amplitude spiking that were distinct from the high-amplitude bursts evoked by contralateral stimulation.
Several # spiking neurons (predominantly pyramidal cells) were measured in each rat.
The effect of nicotine was defined as suppression if the light-induced spiking decreased or was blocked during nicotine application.
When the dendrites were not regularly spiking, the receptive field radius was only 250 mm.
Firstly, the reformation of the retinotopic map in the optic tectum involves growth processes that are differentially affected by spiking activity in the optic nerve.
Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cor tical neural networks.
However, the relationship between the presence of these currents and the different spiking patterns we observed in current-clamp recordings was not examined.
This is important for spiking because of its high metabolic cost.
The effect of nicotine was defined as enhancement if light-induced spiking increased during nicotine application or the nicotine-induced spiking was additive with light-induced spiking.
The spiking data were converted to reflect the relative spiking frequency of the neuronal ensemble by analyzing consecutive 10-s bins.
The relationship between light-evoked synaptic excitation and spiking behaviour of salamander retinal ganglion cells.
The bar at the bottom shows the repetitive light stimulus that evokes neuronal spiking.
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