A deragatory term for a hardcore or hxc kid. Referred to as such, due to them having multiple facial piercings including their lip, nose, eyebrows, and especially obnoxiously huge plugs on their earlobes that strech their ears out long enough to look like dumbo. Many of them like to preach about being straight edge, or sXe, without actually practicing it. They are more to less, closeted emo kids.
Their taste in music consists, typically of post-hardcore/screamo, deathcore, and [electronicore] bands that all the sound the same, though, they will often try and make you think otherwise, dont let em fool you! A typical [pincushions] favorite bands consists of asking alexandria, bring me the horizon, suicide silence, [attilla], attack! attack!, underoath, falling in reverse, alexisonfire, [we came as romans], i set my friends on fire, waking the cadaver, insertobnoxiouslylongbandnamehere etc. Some of the more obnoxiously douchey pincushions, and their underaged [scene bean] female counterparts are into crunkcore bands like brokencyde and dot dot curve, both of which are an abomination to all things music.
Pincushions are also known to hardcore dance at shows. They like to call themselves metalheads, when in reality, they dont know jack shit about what metal is! They are a thorn at the side of everyone self-respecting metalhead, and are the main reason why its no longer fun to go in mosh pits at shows.