edge out

present singular third person edges out · participle present edging out · participle past edged out · past edged out

1. idiomaticTo defeat in a contest or a game by a narrow margin of victory.

   Barcelona edged out in the penalties scoring 3-2.

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   Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years.

   2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC

2. To gradually exclude; to push someone or something further and further into the margins until they/it is entirely outside of a space.

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   Since the Second World War and the rise of the middle-class "clone gay” in the US and a similar move away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.

   2022, Richard Vytniorgu, “Effeminate Gay Bottoms in the West”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 70, number 10, page 2113