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• n  a minor annoyance
• n  small puncture (as if made by a pin)

• Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks.
• A parody of war movies and a pinprick in the helium balloon of Hollywood egos, Tropic Thunder caps a hectic summer of action films and star-driven comedies and is designed as a .
• In this composite photograph compiled from images produced by Cassini in 2006, the Earth appears as a tiny pinprick of light in the upper left between Saturn's outer rings.

News & Articles

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• Krauthammer: Obama humiliated
  Here is Obama trying to gather an ally or two for a pinprick and he gets nothing,he says.
  Aug. 30, 2013 - Politico

Quotes

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• Colin Barnett in The West Australian
  The Ord River is extending an existing irrigation scheme,Mr Barnett said. "It is not that complicated, while it is another 14,000 hectares if you see it from the air, it is a pinprick in the landscape. The wet season's over basically in...
• Michio Kaku in ABC News
  If you shoot a nuclear weapon right into a black hole, the effect would be smaller than a pinprick compared to the enormous gravitational pull of a black hole itself,explains Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of...
• Ron Wilson in Globe and Mail
  The pinprick was getting tied against Montreal and then losing in overtime,Wilson said. "It seemed to have shattered our confidence out of training camp."