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But when the failing company has been a piercer of more than 100 million ears, nobody can stick to courtroom decorum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

A self-described “shaman, artist, master piercer and body modifier,” Mr. Musafar was “an astronaut of inner spaces,” the photographer Charles Gatewood once said, part of a “sub-sub-subculture” that crept into public view in the 1970s.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2018

The owner said Forrester, or Ranson, West Virginia, was a body piercer and an “icon” in the local rock music scene.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2018

The 25-year-old body piercer from Chelmsford has first-hand experience of the issue.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2015

"Bravo," cried Sheppard, examining its contents, which proved to be a file, a chisel, two or three gimblets, and a piercer.

From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison