Thesaurus results for PIPPED

pipped

verb

Definition of pipped next

past tense of pip

as in chirped

to make a short sharp sound like a small bird baby birds pipping loudly in their nest

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Recent Examples of pipped Vollering and Niewadoma-Phinney have their own rivalry, the Polish rider having pipped Vollering to the 2024 Tour de France Femmes by just four seconds. —

Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026 Since then, Arsenal has flirted with a series of agonizing near misses, most notably pipped at the post by Manchester City in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Premier League campaigns. —

Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 26 Feb. 2026 Machado pipped Trump to the award, who had relentlessly campaigned to win the prize himself, alongside a number of political allies including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. —

Callum Sutherland, Time, 15 Oct. 2025

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chirped

Verb

On a recent morning, birds chirped and hopped from tree to tree under a clear blue morning sky as a man in a respirator and protective earmuffs worked on what remained of Vazquez’s property, which was fenced off from the street.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
Ryan Reaves — arguably the NHL’s toughest fighter through his career — was recently chirped by a teammate two decades younger than him for turning 39.

— Dan Robson, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026