cup
- noun
- /kʌp/
- Al picked the ball out of the cup and rolled the gentle nubs against his fingers.
Watch carefully how this ball penetrates this cup.
- Watch carefully how this ball penetrates this cup.
Examples
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When he finally releases the coin, it flashes through the air and drops neatly into the cup.
Fiction book (2002) -
And the ball has to be in the cup before the time expires, for $10,000.
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Oh, OK, if that goes in the cup, wow, you decided we're good at this.
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Would you like me to move the cup to the ball?
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The putt rolls to the right of the cup and barely clips it as it passes by the hole.
Blog text (14) -
In medal play, a hole was not completed until the subject putted the ball into the cup (no gimmes).
Academic text (1996) -
He aimed carefully and watched his ball roll smoothly into the cup on the green.
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After making a great putt, the ball trickled into the cup for a birdie.
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She smiled as her shot landed right in the cup, winning the game.
Synonyms
The area on a golf course played from the tee to the cup
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cup on a golf green is named because the hole is like a small cup or hollow. So when the ball goes into the 'cup' it falls into that small hole.