cupcake
a small cake, the size of an individual portion, baked in a cup-shaped mold.
Older Slang.
a sexually attractive young woman.
a beloved girl or woman.
Origin of cupcake
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How to use cupcake in a sentence
When I found a cupcake chain paying a higher hourly rate than other local bakeries, I took the job.
The Toxicity of Restaurant Kitchens Is Exactly Why I Never Reported Abuses | Lindsey Danis | February 4, 2021 | EaterA Democrat, Guilfoyle made similar “O” cupcakes in 2009 when Barack Obama became president.
Inaugurations are highly anticipated events in D.C. Now people must watch from their couches. | Emily Davies | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostWedding cupcakes may propel a javelin thrower to gold at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
How Olympic Athletes Are Coping with the Wait for the Postponed 2021 Games | Sean Gregory | January 12, 2021 | TimeYet 2020 Alabama had no such cupcake, because in the midst of the pandemic, the SEC decided to play only the SEC.
After all the disruption in college football, it was all domination for Alabama | Barry Svrluga | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostIf sucrose were addictive, plain sugar eaten by the spoonful would elicit the same emotional response as a cupcake shared with your kids — but most of us would agree that those are very different eating experiences.
I had one, small bite of a chocolate cupcake, and was on my ass in an hour.
Visitors take turns trying to catch the green paper to win a Hello Kitty cupcake stand.
Explosion of Cute: Inside the Superfan Mania of Hello Kitty Con 2014 | Sarah Bay Williams | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was nicely explicated in an Atlantic article whose title says it all: Your Gut Bacteria Want You To Eat A cupcake.
Magnolia Bakery, Georgetown cupcake, and Sprinkles were all gaining scale.
So there was a big imperative for cupcake chains to get large quickly.
British Dictionary definitions for cupcake
/ (ˈkʌpˌkeɪk) /
a small cake baked in a cup-shaped foil or paper case
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