Definition of "pinprick"

pinprick

noun
plural pinpricks
1. An insignificant puncture made by a pin or similar point.
2. A mildly annoying wound or damage.
3. A very tiny dot.
verb
third-person singular simple present pinpricks, present participle pinpricking, simple past and past participle pinpricked
1. (transitive) To produce a jabbing sensation, like a pinprick, in.
2. (transitive) To puncture with a tiny hole or holes.
  Quotations
  By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.
  1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144
  He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms.
  2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, page 164