cup

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cup/kʌp/

▶noun

• 1 a small bowl-shaped container for drinking from, typically with a handle.

  ■ chiefly N. Amer. a measure of capacity used in cookery, equal to half a US pint (0.237 litre).

  ■ (in church use) a chalice used at the Eucharist.

  ■ (cups) one of the suits in a tarot pack.

• 2 a cup-shaped trophy, usually made of gold or silver and having a stem and two handles, awarded as a prize in a sports contest.

  ■ a contest in which the winners are awarded a cup.

• 3 either of the two parts of a bra shaped to contain or support one breast.

• 4 Golf the hole on a putting green or the metal container in it.

• 5 a long mixed drink made from wine or cider and fruit juice.

▶verb (cups, cupping, cupped)

• 1 form (one's hand or hands) into the curved shape of a cup.

  ■ place one's curved hand or hands around.

• 2 Medicine, historical bleed (someone) by using a glass in which a partial vacuum is formed by heating.

– phrases
in one's cups informal drunk.
not one's cup of tea informal not what one likes or is interested in.

– derivatives
cupful noun (pl. cupfuls).

– origin OE: from pop. L. cuppa, prob. from L. cupa ‘tub’.