prick

IPA: prˈɪk

A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
A small pointed object.
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
A feeling of remorse.
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
(UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Hawaii, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
The footprint of a hare.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

(transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
(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.
(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
(transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
(intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
(transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
(intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To aim at a point or mark.
(obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.

Examples of "prick" in Sentences

I thought only football managers engaged in prick-waving?
I don't think this prick is a true Georgian if he didn't have a gun in his home.
Ms. Bush thinks its OK to use the word "prick" in a email, imagine if a man used the word "pussy."
The use of skin prick tests and patch tests to identify causative foods in eosinophilic esophagitis.
The word prick-song occurs not only in all the musical books, but in the literature of the time, and in
Treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis with specific food elimination diet directed by a combination of skin prick and patch tests.
Instead, Obama is sending a pin prick which will do nothing but provide more targets for the Taliban and higher US casualties and have SQUAT effect on the overall war.
Ira, played by a thinned Seth Rogen now looking more geeky than beer-guzzling, has yet to be perverted by his sitcom star of a roommate (Jason Schwartzman, who specializes in prick roles and delivers one of his funniest yet).
Bush, who started out as a bookkeeper and was eventually promoted to regional sales manager but claims she was passed over for more senior positions because of her gender, said she later was fired for using the word "prick" in an e-mail.