India pips China
Headline from the Deccan Herald:
"India pips China, inks deal to develop, support maintain harbour at naval base in Maldives", Anirban Bhaumik (2/21/21)
Although I could guess from the context what it meant in the title of this article, I had never encountered "pip" with this meaning before.
Upon looking it up in Wiktionary, I find that "pip" has no less than seven different main meanings. Of these, five are nouns and only two are verbs.
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