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say it: kuhp
cup is a noun and verb meaning "a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle". It is pronounced /ˈkʌp/ — kuhp. It carries 11 recorded senses.
the quantity a cup will hold
“he drank a cup of coffee”
“he borrowed a cup of sugar”
any cup-shaped concavity
“bees filled the waxen cups with honey”
“he wore a jock strap with a metal cup”
“the cup of her bra”
a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
cup-shaped plant organ
a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
“he swore as the ball rimmed the cup and rolled away”
“put the flag back in the cup”
a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
“the school kept the cups is a special glass case”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cup come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.