cup
- noun
- /kʌp/
- Lifting the curtain, I saw, to my delight, a cup of steaming coffee sitting there.
- World Cup
- win the cup
- Cup final
This infant has a baby size Stanley Cup next to her.
- This infant has a baby size Stanley Cup next to her.
- Fighting, winning championships, winning cups, different medals and everything.
- Forests won two European Cups under the great Brian Clough.
- Texas mom starts new trend of tiny cup sized moms.
- I'll fill your Stanley Cup with the sweetest of sweet teas.
- Every World Cup ticket, NFT, concert NFT.
Examples
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"There was a shining silver cup in her hand, filled with blood-red wine.
Fiction book (1991) -
Who lost the Pantheon Cup last year?
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Well, your 12 never beat my eight for the cup, now, did they, Tom?
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Only those who had on the cup were allowed to touch it.
Fiction book (1993) -
We're going to win the Lafitte Cup, I promise you.
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The National Hockey League Stanley Cup playoffs were chosen as archival data for several reasons.
Academic text (1995) -
And on that day may Erin well pledge in the cup she lifts to joy.
Academic text (1991) -
Bradshaw and the landowner will share the cup's estimated $350,000 value, the artifact going to the British Museum.
Academic text (2002) -
Emily accepts the silver-colored plastic cup from the mayor and graciously names her three classmates as contributors.
Fiction book (1998) -
After winning the race, he proudly held up the cup as the crowd cheered.
Synonyms
An object like a cup or medal kept as a prize for winning
A large cup with two handles given as a trophy at ceremonies
Idioms
Compounds
An international soccer tournament held every four years where national teams play to win the world title
- US
A small round cup of paper, foil, or silicone that holds and shapes muffins while they bake
- Archaic
A small bowl made from bone ash used to separate precious metals during testing
- Specialized
A small brown mushroom that looks like a cup and grows on dead wood in damp places
- UK
A very poisonous white mushroom with a cup-shaped base and white gills that can kill if eaten
- Specialized
An electric machine with a cup-shaped metal part that turns around a fixed magnet inside
- Specialized
A small bright red mushroom shaped like a cup that grows on the forest floor
- Specialized
A small plant that comes back every year with two opposite leaves and a stem of white flowers
- Specialized
A cuplike part at the base of a flower that holds small parts like petals and stamens
- Specialized
A slender plant with shiny brown stalks and divided leaves with small brown dots along the edges
- Archaic
A cup with a small bar inside the rim that keeps a man's mustache out of the drink
- US
A plant from Mexico with bright yellow cup-shaped flowers and blue-grey divided leaves
- US
A plant from western North America with one or two white star-shaped flowers on short leafless stems
- Specialized
A two-layer cup in a developing embryo that becomes the retina's dark and light-sensing layers
How Prestigious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cup as a trophy comes from the old practice of giving a decorated drinking cup to winners, so today a 'cup' often means a large decorative vessel given as a prize.