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Variant of cup

cup Definition

cup (kup)

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

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

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cup Idioms

in one's cups

drunk; intoxicated

Browse dictionary entries near cuplike

  1. cupidity
  2. cupid's-bow
  3. Cupid
  4. cupfuls
  5. cupful
  6. cupferron
  7. cupelled
  8. cupellation
  9. cupeling
  10. cupeled
  1. cupola
  2. cupolaed
  3. cuppa
  4. cupped
  5. cupper
  6. cupping
  7. cuppy
  8. cupr-
  9. cupreous
  10. cupri-