| pins and needles | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a tingling sensation in the fingers, toes, legs, etc, caused by the return of normal blood circulation after its temporary impairment |
| 2. | on pins and needles in a state of anxious suspense or nervous anticipation |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |