pricked

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pricked

  1. Punctured by small holes.
    • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
      The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
  2. (figuratively, of ears) Listening carefully.
    Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.

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pricked

  1. simple past and past participle of prick

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