pin-pricked

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Adjective[edit]

pin-pricked (comparative more pin-pricked, superlative most pin-pricked)

  1. Having been pricked by a pin; having a pin stuck through.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:
      [B]ut Gillespie was too tough or insensitive to feel the lethal waves sent out from his pin-pricked image.
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