Cup Coffee Kʌp Extra Examples I Tea Competition

• he filled the cup with water.
• a coffee cup
• a cup and saucer
• a plastic/paper cup

cup

1. a small container that is like a bowl in shape, usually with a handle, used for drinking tea, coffee, etc.
• SEE ALSO Dixie Cup™
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dixie-cuptm
• He filled the cup with water.
• a coffee cup
• a cup and saucer
• a plastic/paper cup

Extra Examples

• Customers don't like drinking out of plastic cups.
• She raised her cup to her lips.
• She was so thirsty that she drained her cup.
2. the contents of a cup
• She drank the whole cup.
• Would you like a cup of tea?

Extra Examples

• Enrique stirred his fourth cup of coffee of the day.
• I drink about ten cups of coffee a day.
• I like a good strong cup of tea first thing in the morning.
• I'm making tea. Can I pour you a cup?
• My coffee was cold, so I ordered a fresh cup.
• You sit down and I'll make you a nice cup of tea.
3. a gold or silver cup on a stem, often with two handles, that is given as a prize in a competition
• She's won several cups for skating.
• He lifted the cup (= won) for the fifth time this year.

Extra Examples

• The cup will be presented to the winning team by the president himself.
• Who won the cup?
4. a sports competition in which a cup is given as a prize
• the World Cup
• The team finished runners-up in the league and cup.

Extra Examples

• They lost to Portugal in the World Cup quarter finals.
• Will Liverpool secure a place in next year's UEFA Cup?
• They were the surprise winners of last year's America's Cup.
• Sunderland beat Port Vale at the beginning of their cup run (= a series of winning games in a competition to win a cup).
• the Ryder Cup competition
• They were the first Turkish team to win a major cup competition.
• The team are ready for next week's World Cup clash with Italy.
5. a unit for measuring quantity used in cooking mainly in the US; a metal or plastic container used to measure this quantity
• SEE ALSO measuring cup
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/measuring-cup
• two cups of flour and half a cup of butter
6. a thing that has the shape of a cup
• an egg cup
7. one of the two parts of a bra that cover the breasts
• a C cup
8. a drink made from wine mixed with, for example, fruit juice
• SEE ALSO fruit cup
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fruit-cup
9. the hole on the green, or the metal container inside it, that you must get the ball into
10. a piece of plastic that a man wears over his sex organs to protect them while he is playing a sport
• COMPARE box (10)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/box_1#box_sng_10
11. having drunk too much alcohol
• He gets very maudlin when he's in his cups.
12. not what somebody likes or is interested in
• An evening at the opera isn't everyone's cup of tea.
• He's nice enough but not really my cup of tea.
13. nothing is completely certain until it really happens because things can easily go wrong

Word Origin

• Old English: from popular Latin cuppa, probably from Latin cupa ‘tub’.