cup

cup [kup]

n.

[ME & OE cuppe < LL cuppa, altered < L cupa, tub < IE * keup-, a hollow < base * keu-, to bend, arch > COOMB, HUMP]

1. a small, open container for beverages, usually bowl-shaped and with a handle

2. the bowl part of a drinking vessel

3. a cup and its contents

4. the amount a cup holds; cupful: a standard measuring cup holds 8 fluid ounces or 16 tablespoons: abbrev. C

5. anything shaped like a cup or bowl

6. an ornamental, usually metal, cup with a stem and base, given as a prize

7.

a) the chalice containing the wine at Communion

b) the wine

8. one's portion, share, or allotment [his cup of happiness was full]

9. something served as in a cup: see CLARET CUP, FRUIT CUP

10. one of two sections of a bra that support the breasts

11. a padded, hard-plastic protective device worn over the genitals by a male athlete

12. Biol. any cuplike organ or structure

13. Golf the container set in the hole sunk into the green, into which the ball drops; hole

14. Med. a small glass bowl or similar object used in cupping

vt.

cupped, cupping

1. to shape like a cup

2. to take in or put into a cup

3. Med. to treat with or subject to cupping

——————

in one's cups

drunk; intoxicated

cuplike

adj.