pricked

Punctured by small holes.

Adjective

  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. Listening carefully.
    • Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.

Synonyms

pierced punctured

Related

prick up one's ears

Derived

pin-pricked unpricked uppricked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of prick