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pip
verb
to defeat someone by a narrow margin UK, 1939
Sometimes elaborated to “pip at the post”.- Jonathan Franzen [...] was this week pipped to a Pulitzer by Richard Russo’s Empire Falls. — The Guardian, 13 April 2002
- It was a case of unlucky again for Australian stand-up Adam Hills; having being nominated in three consecutive years, he was again pipped at the post. — The Guardian, 25 August 2003
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