Prompt last couple, missing socialist, getting penetrated (9)
I believe the answer is:
punctured
'penetrated' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'prompt last couple missing socialist' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'socialist' could be 'red' (red can informally mean a socialist) and 'red' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'getting' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for punctured that I've seen before include "deflated" , "Holed" .)