Definitions for cupped

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Spelling: [kuhpt]

IPA: /kʌpt/

Cupped is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in cupped (cdeppu).

Definitions for cupped

noun

1. a small, open container made of china, glass, metal, etc., usually having a handle and used chiefly as a receptable from which to drink tea, soup, etc.
2. the bowllike part of a goblet or the like.
3. a cup with its contents.
4. the quantity contained in a cup.
5. a unit of capacity, equal to 8 fluid ounces (237 milliliters) or 16 tablespoons; half-pint.
6. an ornamental bowl, vase, etc., especially of precious metal, offered as a prize for a contest.
7. any of various beverages, as a mixture of wine and various ingredients:
8. the chalice used in the Eucharist.
9. the wine of the Eucharist.
10. something to be partaken of or endured; one's portion, as of joy or suffering.
11. cups, the drinking of intoxicating liquors.
12. any cuplike utensil, organ, part, cavity, etc.
13. either of the two forms that cover and usually support the breasts in a brassiere or other garment, as a bathing suit.
14. an athletic supporter reinforced with rigid plastic or metal for added protection.
15. Golf. the metal receptacle within the hole. the hole itself.
16. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Crater.
17. cupping glass.
18. Metalworking. a cylindrical shell closed at one end, especially one produced in the first stages of a deep-drawing operation.
19. Mathematics. the cuplike symbol ∪, used to indicate the union of two sets. Compare union (def 10a).

Idioms

1. in one's cups, intoxicated; drunk.

adjective

1. hollowed out like a cup; cup-shaped.

verb (used with object)

1. to take or place in, or as in, a cup:
2. to form into a cuplike shape:
3. to use a cupping glass on.
4. Metalworking. to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by punching hot strip or sheet metal and drawing it through a die. Compare deep-draw.

Origin of cupped

First recorded in 1790-1800; cup + -ed³

Examples for cupped

Dawes cupped his hands over the plate glass and peered inside.

WE BOTH KNOW I cupped HIS BALLS, so we exchanged a, 'I know you know I just felt your balls look.'

Situated at 5,400 feet, it's encircled by jagged peaks that make you feel you're cupped inside a caldera.

"Look at all the paparazzi going wild," he said, and cupped his hand to his mouth.

Jimmy's neighbor had cupped his hand behind his ear and was evidently disappointed.

No forger brought these cupped stones in his waistcoat pocket.

They cupped each other's hands and shifted their body weight ever-so-slightly.

She brought it obediently and poured it into his cupped hands.

I cupped my searing left cheek in my hand as I sobbed, muffling my mouth with the other so not to wake my daughter.

Forepaugh cupped his hands over his mouth and gave the call.