pipped in English

verb
1
(of a young bird) crack (the shell of the egg) when hatching.
The first chicks will start to pip the shell as early as the 19th day of incubation.
2
defeat by a small margin or at the last moment.
you were just pipped for the prize
verb

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1. We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.

2. 19 Sato just pipped the Kenyan runner in a sprint finish.

3. 29 We were pipped at the post by a firm whose price was lower.

4. It's still possible for the losers to be pipped by West Germany for a semi-final place.

5. But they met their match in Ryde School from the Isle of Wight, who pipped them for victory.

6. 11 Sec.'s team made a strong run at the post and just pipped Russell Mulford's team for second place.

7. Useful places, Crammers, either as full-time sixth form colleges teaching two-year A-level syllabuses, or as rescuers of students who have pipped GCSEs or A-levels first time round and are