Usually means: Tingling sensation from nerve pressure.
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  1. pins and needles: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pins and needles: Merriam-Webster
  3. pins and needles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pins and needles: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pins and needles: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. pins and needles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pins and needles: Wiktionary
  9. pins and needles: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pins and needles: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pins and needles: Dictionary.com
  12. Pins and Needles (disambiguation), Pins and Needles, Pins and needles (disambiguation), Pins and needles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pins and needles: Rhymezone
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  17. pins and needles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pins and needles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pins-and-needles: Merck Manuals

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  1. pins and needles: Idioms

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  1. pins and needles: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pins and needles)

▸ noun:  (informal) A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.

Similar:
tingling, acanthesthesia, Tinel's sign, urtication, acanthaesthesia, Stinger, nettling, penninervation, needling, funny bone, more...

Opposite:
numbness, anesthesia, deadness

Types:
prickling, stinging, tingling, numbness, paresthesia, more...

Phrases:
on pins and needles, pins and needles sensation, pins and needles holder, more...

Adjectives:
pinchy, prick-eared, stickle, nibbed, prickly, pricked, clawed, clawfooted, pounced, pinchbeck, poking

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Similar:
tingling, acanthesthesia, Tinel's sign, urtication, acanthaesthesia, Stinger, nettling, penninervation, needling, funny bone, more...

Opposite:
numbness, anesthesia, deadness

Types:
prickling, stinging, tingling, numbness, paresthesia, more...

Phrases:
on pins and needles, pins and needles sensation, pins and needles holder, more...

Adjectives:
pinchy, prick-eared, stickle, nibbed, prickly, pricked, clawed, clawfooted, pounced, pinchbeck, poking



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