Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk.

1911		J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 26: Si’s wife come in and sipped and sipped / (As women will) till she was pipped.
1913		J. London John Barleycorn (1989) 152: They had got their previous guest [...] a brilliant young radical, unskilled in drinking, quite pipped.

2. wounded.

1916		‘New Church’ Times 8 May (2006) 61: ‘Pipped On The Parapet’ This Exciting Tale Has been Filmed at Enormous Expense.
1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 425: Pipped. Wounded.

3. beaten.

1903		Sun. Times (Perth) 4 Jan. 4/7: When financially you’re pipped, When your jewellery he’s nipped, / And with your wife he’s skipped, /Swear off!
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Aug. Red Page/1: The ’Urdles now, en’ Steeple’s all the go / Ter give the blokes a charnce ter do their dough, / Then fetch a skite their forchin jist got pipped!
1966		B. Reckord Skyvers III i: But you’ll get pipped, you lot. I’ll do better in life than a bunch of bastards warming round Brook.
1978		J. Dingwall Sun. Too Far Away 53: arthur: Foley’s that good? basher: He’s a freak; never been pipped.
2000		Indep. Rev. 25 Apr. 8: The usual winner, the British Press Awards, seems to have been pipped by the Royal Television Society’s latest bash.