Pips, Pipped
Pips, or pipped, can mean the spots on a card, and as a verb, one card beating another by a single pip, outranking it by one. For example, ace-ten is pipped by ace-nine when the ten is only one higher.
The simple explanation
If your hand beats another hand by one rank, you have it pipped. For example, ace-ten beats ace-nine by one pip.
A closer look
The word is used when a hand barely wins on the last card, such as a kicker one rank higher. It reminds you that small differences decide pots. Players say 'pipped' for a narrow win.
A practical example
A player shows A♥ 9♦ and another shows A♦ 10♣. The player with the ten has the other player pipped.
Full explanation
Pips, or pipped, can mean the spots on a card, and as a verb, one card beating another by a single pip, outranking it by one. For example, ace-ten is pipped by ace-nine when the ten is only one higher.
Pips are the marks on a card.
As a verb, it means beating by one rank.
A narrow win by a kicker is pipped.
Small differences decide pots.