noun

1. a small, open container for beverages, usually bowl-shaped and with a handle
2. the bowl part of a drinking vessel
3. a cup and its contents
4. the amount a cup holds; cupful: a standard measuring cup holds 8 fluid ounces or 16 tablespoons: abbrev. C
5. anything shaped like a cup or bowl
6. an ornamental, usually metal, cup with a stem and base, given as a prize
7. 1. the chalice containing the wine at Communion
   2. the wine
8. one's portion, share, or allotment his cup of happiness was full
9. something served as in a cup
10. one of two sections of a bra that support the breasts
11. a padded, hard-plastic protective device worn over the genitals by a male athlete
12. Biol. any cuplike organ or structure
13. Golf the container set in the hole sunk into the green, into which the ball drops; hole
14. Med. a small glass bowl or similar object used in cupping

Etymology: ME & OE cuppe < LL cuppa, altered < L cupa, tub < IE *keup-, a hollow < base *keu-, to bend, arch > coomb, hump

transitive verb cupped, cupping cup′·ping

1. to shape like a cup
2. to take in or put into a cup
3. Med. to treat with or subject to cupping