Mormons sip from cups of water, Catholics from chalices of wine.
In its finest World Cup victory, a valiant U.S. team gets revenge on the country that knocked it out of the last two cups.
Jazz helps sell millions of cups of coffee, but sales of jazz records are in dire need of a caffeine jolt.
HydrateYou know the drill: 64 ounces, two quarts, eight cups.
Archeological excavations have yielded many examples of ancient Israelite cups and they are made of cheap durable fabrics.
His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other cups who had gone before.
It is for me to fill your cups again, since you have drained them to my dear lads of the white jerkin.
She fairly put us into chairs, and brought us cups of something—I don't know what.
She went to the scullery and returned with cups and saucers which she put on the table.
He drank three cups of tea, but abstained from food entirely.
late 14c., "to draw blood by cupping," from cup (n.). Meaning "to form a cup" is from 1830. Related: Cupped; cupping.
Old English cuppe, from Late Latin cuppa "cup" (source of Italian coppa, Spanish copa, Old French coupe "cup"), from Latin cupa "tub, cask, tun, barrel," from PIE *keup- "a hollow" (cf. Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kype "a kind of ship," Old Church Slavonic kupu, Lithuanian kaupas).
The Late Latin word was borrowed throughout Germanic; cf. Old Frisian kopp "cup, head," Middle Low German kopp "cup," Middle Dutch coppe, Dutch kopje "cup, head." German cognate Kopf now means exclusively "head" (cf. French tête, from Latin testa "potsherd"). Meaning "part of a bra that holds a breast" is from 1938. [One's] cup of tea "what interests one" (1932), earlier used of persons (1908), the sense being "what is invigorating."
cup (kŭp)
n.
A cup-shaped structure or organ.
See cupping glass.
A unit of capacity or volume equal to 16 tablespoons or 8 fluid ounces.
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