pricked
adj/pɹɪkt/
1
Punctured by small holes.
- The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
2
Figuratively, Of ears Listening carefully.
- Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.
- Synonyms
- pierced, punctured
- Derived terms
- pin-pricked, unpricked, uppricked
- Related terms
- prick up one's ears