cupping
3
7.5
- noun
- /ˈkʌpɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
ventosas
- Many athletes use cupping to help with recovery and improve circulation after intense workouts.
- cupping therapy
- coffee cupping
I have an issue with my IT band so she did cupping all down my a tea band too.
- I have an issue with my IT band so she did cupping all down my a tea band too.
- Yeah, but yeah, cupping's great, except when they take the cup and go like that.
Examples
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Some more specialized therapeutic techniques found locally, such as cautery, branding, and blood cupping, are in occasional use.
Academic text (1996) -
Sample tastings of Roasterie blends in the expanded cupping room will complete the tours.
Blog text (5) -
Yeah, I've been using cupping for the last year and used it well before that as well.
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There was bleeding and cupping to release the noxious agents.
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I don't know if you guys can see this on camera, but I had some facial cupping gone wrong this morning.
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Since this was M'Lissa's first cupping ever, she thought she was going into cardiac arrest.
Blog text (20) -
If wine tasting is for wines, cupping is for coffee.
Blog text (2) -
Private cuppings to develop custom blends will also be available.
Blog text (5) -
We did learn about some cultural practices, such as "cupping" in TCM, just so we wouldn't think the kids had been abused if we saw welts on them in the pediatric clinics.
Blog text (5) -
Cupping is a traditional therapy that involves placing heated cups on the skin to create cupping.
How Invasive
945
2.7
- Archaic
3
9.5
- Specialized
3
7.5
- Specialized
43
3.9
271
2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cupping comes from cup, which means 'a small bowl', and the ending -ing shows an action. So cupping is the action of placing cups on the skin to make suction in a therapy, which is why the treatment is called that.