stirrup cup

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   a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic

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Questions about stirrup cup

What does stirrup cup mean?

stirrup cup means "a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic".

Is stirrup cup a common word?

stirrup cup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.