Word Meaning

cup definition and meaning

n. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
n. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
n. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
n. That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
n. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
n. A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
v. t. To supply with cups of wine.
v. t. To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
v. t. To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

Crossword clues for cup

- ... and saucer
- A bit of a hiccup on golf hole
- Beaker
- Drinking vessel
- Drinking-vessel
- Eight-ounce trophy
- Every other chump or mug
- Mug
- One hundred up for trophy
- Recipe quantity
- sports award
- Sports trophy
- Tennis trophy, Davis ...
- Trophy