cup tie

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   an eliminating game between teams in a cup competition

   Broadergame

Questions about cup tie

What does cup tie mean?

cup tie means "an eliminating game between teams in a cup competition".

Is cup tie a common word?

cup tie is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.