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Very annoyed over British pound? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vibrate

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'pound?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with motion as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'very annoyed over british' is the wordplay.
'very' becomes 'v' (abbreviation).
'annoyed' becomes 'irate' (I've seen this before).
'over' indicates putting letters inside.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in 'BBC').
'irate' placed around 'b' is 'ibrate'.
'v'+'ibrate'='VIBRATE'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for vibrate that I've seen before include "Quiver rapidly, resonate" , "Shake, quiver, or throb" , "Oscillate rapidly" , "tremble" , "Move rapidly to and fro" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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