body piercing

American  

noun

body piercings plural

1. the piercing of a part of the body, as the navel, in order to insert an ornamental ring or stud.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• body piercings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of body piercing

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

You can’t get a body piercing other than for earrings without parent consent,” he said.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2023

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

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