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cuplike

Variant of cup

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
    1. the chalice containing the wine at Communion
    2. the wine
  7. one's portion, share, or allotment: his cup of happiness was full
  8. something served as in a cup
  9. one of two sections of a bra that support the breasts
  10. a padded, hard-plastic protective device worn over the genitals by a male athlete
  11. Biol. any cuplike organ or structure
  12. Golf the container set in the hole sunk into the green, into which the ball drops; hole
  13. Med. a small glass bowl or similar object used in cupping

transitive verb cupped, cupping

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

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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