cop the needle en · VERB
Meanings
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(UK, slang) To grow annoyed.
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.'
1999, Roy Shaw with Kate Kray, “Nick-Knack-Paddy-Whack”, in Pretty Boy, London: Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 82:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cops the needle | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| copped the needle | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| copped the needle | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| copping the needle | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |