Definition 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.

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