Spoons may refer to:
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Spoon
A spoon is a utensil consisting of a shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for ...
, a utensil commonly used with soup
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Spoons (card game)
Pig is a simple, collecting card game of early 20th century American origin suitable for three to thirteen players that is played with a 52-card French-suited pack. It has two very similar and well known variants – Donkey and Spoons. It is often ...
, the card game of Donkey, but using spoons
Film and TV
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''Spoons'' (TV series), a 2005 UK comedy sketch show
*Spoons, a minor character from ''
The Sopranos
''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...
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Spoons (Gobots)
This is an alphabetical list of GoBots characters with information on their appearances, fictional biographies and histories.
Bad Boy
Bad Boy is one of Cy-Kill's minions. He is a rough street punk always ready with an insult and looking for a ...
, a fictional character
Music
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Spoons (band)
Spoons is a Canadian new wave band, formed in Burlington, Ontario in 1979. They recorded several Canadian chart hits between 1982 and 1989, and in 1983, they were nominated for Most Promising Group of the Year at the Juno Awards. Their most ...
, a Canadian new wave synth-pop band
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Spoons (musical instrument)
Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets. They are played by hitting one spoon against the other.
Techniques
# Fire tongs style: A pair of spoons is held tight wi ...
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''Spoons'' (album), 2007 debut album of Wallis Bird
*"Spoons", a track from the 2002 album ''
Mali Music'' by Damon Albarn
Other uses
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Spoons sex position
The spoons position or spooning is both a sexual position and a cuddling technique. The name derives from the way that two spoons may be positioned side by side, with bowls aligned. The sexual spoons position is a form of a rear-entry position, a ...
*Spoons, common abbreviation for
Wetherspoons
J D Wetherspoon plc (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It op ...
, a UK chain of pubs
*Spoons, as a disability metaphor in
spoon theory
The spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical and/or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. It was coined by writer and blogger Christine Miserandino in 2003 a ...
— how much energy you have left to complete tasks before becoming exhausted
*Spoon
Oar (sport rowing)
In rowing, oars are used to propel the boat. Oars differ from paddles in that they use a fixed or sliding fulcrum, an oarlock or rowlock attached to the side of the boat, to transfer power from the handle to the blade, rather than using the athl ...
, one with a curved blade
See also
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Spoon (disambiguation)
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