cupper
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cupper
1400–50 for an earlier sense; 1560–70 for current sense; late Middle English; see cup, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Cupper: It would be both gratifying and horrifying.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
Cupper: The Pennsylvania was the first billion-dollar corporation and it employed at its height 279,000 employees.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
Cupper: To talk about the New York tunnels, they used existing technology, but on a scale that had not been tried before.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
Adam Hadwin Age: 32 World Ranking: 55 Players starts: 5 Best Players finish: T-30, 2017 Canadian Presidents Cupper had two top fives in the fall but hasn’t done much since.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 9, 2020
Instruments of the Professional Cupper Cupping instruments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were generally simple dome-shaped glass cups provided with thick rims so that the cups would be less painful when applied and removed.
From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby
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