coptheneedle (third-person singular simple presentcops the needle,present participlecopping the needle,simple past and past participlecopped the needle)

1. (UK, slang) To growannoyed.
   • 1999,Roy Shaw with Kate Kray, “Nick-Knack-Paddy-Whack”, inPretty Boy, London:Blake Publishing Ltd,→ISBN,page82:

     It must have been the way I said it because hecopped the needle and sneered, 'I haven't got to talk to you about fuck-all. Whatever I do is none of your Goddamn business.'

• John Camden Hotten (1873),The Slang Dictionary

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