Definition of "winner"

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

Remember Rappin' Duke? Duh-ha, duh-haYou never thought that hip-hop would take it this farNow I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tightTime to get paid, blow up like the World TradeBorn sinner, the opposite of a winnerRemember when I used to eat sardines for dinner

1994, 0:41 from the start, in Juicy‎ (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.

It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.

2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport