The Meaning of cup

• (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
• (n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
• (n.) Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
• (n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
• (n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
• (n.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
• (v. t.) To supply with cups of wine.
• (v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
• (v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

Synonyms

cupful , loving cup , transfuse

Homophones

cupp

Rhymes

backup , blowup , breakup , buildup , bupp , buttercup , checkup , chupp , cleanup , close-up , closeup , cupp , eggcup , followup , greenup , grownup , grupp , holdup , hookup , hupp , knupp , krupp , lay-up , letup , lineup , linkup , lockup , makeup , markup , pickup , pileup , pup , push-up , pushup , roundup , runup , rupp , ruppe , schupp , setup , shakeup , shupp , speedup , start-up , startup , strupp , stupp , sup , teacup , trupp , up , upp , wakeup , windup , yup