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• v  goad or provoke,as by constant criticism
  He needled her with his sarcastic remarks
• v  prick with a needle
• s  of trees whose leaves are acerate

• While the speakeasy customers sipped needled beer, the blonde moppets sang and wriggled their way through Black Bottom and other favorite anthems of the year 1926.
• Joseph Nye Welch, 69, Iowa-born Boston barrister who on coast-tocoast TV gently and repeatedly needled the late Senator Joseph McCarthy into fury during the 1954 Army-McCarthy .
• India's Jawaharlal Nehru is like a man who is simultaneously being trampled by an elephant and needled by a mosquitoand goes for the mosquito.

• needle
• goad

News & Articles

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• Lions' Morgan ready to fight for job at LB
  Morgan, a New York native and three-year starter at the University of Albany, said one of his first conversations with the Lions the night of the draft was with linebackers coach Matt Burke, an avowed Boston Red Sox fan who needled his new linebacker about his hometown New York Yankees.
  June 21, 2013 - Detroit Free Press

Quotes

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• Brian Smith in League HQ
  I can honestly say we are sending multiple players out there who are needled up or haven't been able to train during the week,Knights coach Brian Smith told the Herald. "It's not fair on the individual. I understand what the cap is...
• Nathan Hindmarsh in Fox Sports
  Bob needled our politicians, pressed his friends in positions of power, and picked up the Democratic Party in order to kick it forward whenever it fell down on its promise to fully support LGBT Americans. Bob Hattoy was truly a person of... Joe Solmonese http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Solmonese&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAA9JzcUJR4T_xwVPlPaVyTi3lVQ 365Gay.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/03/030507obit.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGvG33ii1sx41mnHkCyoWUAXdY8Bw Mar 5, 2007 66969 89136 needled I just fell on it at training," Hindmarsh said. "I can't even remember what I was doing. I was pretty much doing nothing. To be honest, I don't think it was that bad tonight. I got needled, but in a game like that I think the adrenaline gets...