The phrase "about to spike" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is on the verge of increasing or rising sharply, often in contexts like finance, sports, or data trends.
Example: "The stock prices are about to spike after the positive earnings report was released."
Alternatives: "on the verge of rising" or "set to increase sharply."
Her husband is something of a hypochondriac--he says his skin feels sore and he is a trifle giddy, as if he is about to "spike a temp".
Net net, home prices aren't about to spike north any time soon.
This deal is not a bet that newspaper readership is about to spike up".
The field goal was considerably closer than it would have been because Cincinnati's Domata Peko was called for unsportsmanlike conduct for calling out the offensive signals as the Cardinals (8-2) were about to spike the ball to set up the kick.
A new study of gentrification shows that the addition of a coffee shop or restaurant in your neighborhood could be an early indicator that housing prices are about to spike.
States could mandate renewable portfolio standards or the use of more energy efficiency and demand response that gives consumers a head's up when prices are about to spike so that they can cut their energy usage.
That's been the pattern in recent weeks, as Trump, who spent 2016 chronically boasting about his ability to spike TV news ratings, clearly falls short of the ratings successes Obama posted early in his presidency.
Okay yeah well, get a comb and at the base of the about to be spike comb it downwards and then upwards (for those that don't know how to tease hair).
The gamma bursts (~50 120 Hz) are tied to spiking carrying information about the remembered items.
When a neuron is about to emit a spike, even a weak electric field can bias spike threshold.
Traffic to TwitPic.com has spiked to about 2.3 million unique visitors per month according to Compete stats (which, based on experience, means it probably receives a good deal more) and last night the TwitPic account boasted about having signed up its 1 millionth user.
