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in the PONS Dictionary

pinprick N

1. pinprick (hole):

pinprick

2. pinprick (prick):

pinprick

3. pinprick (spot):

pinprick
pinprick

Phrases:

to be a pinprick

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to be a pinprick

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

Looking at them, "you can see there are small pores" like pinpricks.
www.odt.co.nz
There's scope to add more telemedicine aspects to our hub; such as blood pressure measurement, pinprick blood analysis and a pulse oximeter.
www.siliconrepublic.com
Though all the pulses were of equal strength, volunteers reported that some of them felt like pinpricks while others were painless.
discovermagazine.com
Later, when he offered his hand, she drew away and refused to shake, in spite of the fact she could not explicitly recall the pinprick itself.
en.wikipedia.org
The sensible response to such pinprick attacks is prevention: good intelligence-gathering and smarter security measures, not mass arrests and foreign wars.
www.thetelegram.com