Usually means: Sharp point causing small puncture.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. prick: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prick: Vocabulary.com
  6. prick: Wordnik
  7. prick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prick: Wiktionary
  9. prick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prick, prick: Dictionary.com
  13. prick: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prick (Melvins album), Prick (Prick album), Prick (band), Prick (disambiguation), Prick (magazine), Prick (slang), Prick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prick: Rhymezone
  19. prick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prick: Free Dictionary
  22. prick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prick: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prick: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. prick: Legal dictionary

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  1. prick: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prick: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prick, prick, prick, prick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. prick: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See pricked as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
noun:  An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
noun:  (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
noun:  (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
noun:  A small pointed object.
noun:  The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
noun:  A feeling of remorse.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) The penis.
noun:  (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
noun:  (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
noun:  The footprint of a hare.
noun:  (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
noun:  (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
verb:  (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
verb:  (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
verb:  (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
verb:  (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
verb:  (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
verb:  (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
verb:  To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
verb:  (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
verb:  (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
verb:  To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
verb:  (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
verb:  (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
verb:  To aim at a point or mark.
verb:  (obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.

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