to cup
- verb
- /kʌp/
- Specialized
Examples
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Shaved the hair off her body in order to cup her.
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Only her arms wrapped around his neck held her upright as he abandoned his hold on her waist to cup her breasts with both hands.
Fiction book (1995) -
They suction cup to your fingers so hard.
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Perta waits... cups herself to receive me.
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"In an old habit, he skimmed his hands up her slim torso to cup her breasts.
Fiction book (1995) -
To help relieve tension, a therapist will cup the skin with special suction devices.
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The instructor demonstrated how to cup the palms to create a gentle suction during the massage.
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During the treatment, the practitioner will cup the patient's shoulder to aid in relaxation.
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
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
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Cup in the therapy called 'cupping' comes from placing small heated glass or metal cups on the skin to make a suction. So 'cupping' means treating the body by using cups to pull the skin up.