cop the needle

English

Verb

cop the needle (third-person singular simple present cops the needle, present participle copping the needle, simple past and past participle copped the needle)

  1. (UK, slang) To grow annoyed.
    • 2013, Roy Shaw, Pretty Boy:
      It must have been the way I said it because he copped the needle and sneered, 'I haven't got to talk to you about fuck-all. Whatever I do is none of your Goddamn business.'

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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