body piercing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of body piercing
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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Soon enough, Instagram offered up a profile: a body piercing business near Witherspoon’s Landover home.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023
As well as salons and nail bars, spas, massage and tattoo parlours and body piercing services are also able to reopen from Wednesday.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2020
If you like it, do it,’ ” Morales, 36, says from his office inside the Catalyst Arts Collective tattoo and body piercing shop alongside Missouri 291 in Independence.
From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2016
Grunge, along with gangsta rap’s prison chic, punk’s masochism, and heavy metal’s exhibitionism, helped mainstream the use of tattoos, body piercing, and even some limited body cutting, as vehicles for self-expression and individuation.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2015
‘Hang in there. You are not dying from a stupid body piercing.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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