Usually means: Container for drinking liquids typically.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word cup:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cup: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. CUP, Cup, cup, cup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cup, cup: Wordnik
  7. cup: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cup: Wiktionary
  9. cup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cup: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CUP: Dictionary.com
  13. cup: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CUP, Cup (disambiguation), Cup (measurement), Cup (unit), Cup (volume), Cup, The Cup (TV series), The Cup (book): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cup: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cup: Rhymezone
  19. cup: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cup: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CUP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Cup: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cup: Free Dictionary
  24. cup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. cup: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. cup: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. CUP: bizterms.net
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. CUP: Investopedia
  6. cup: Legal dictionary
  7. CUP: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. cup: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cup: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. CUP: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. CUP: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. cup: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CUP: Acronym Finder
  3. CUP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cup: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cup: Easton Bible
  2. Cup: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. cup: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Cup: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Cup: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cup, cup: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.U.P, C.U.P. (Canadian UpsideDown Pudding), CUP(s), The Cup: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cup: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. cup: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. cup: Lighting Design Glossary
  3. Cup: Glossary of Cheese Terms

(Note: See cuplike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
noun:  The contents of said vessel.
noun:  A customary unit of measure
noun:  (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
noun:  (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
noun:  (UK, dated) A British unit of measure equal to ¹⁄₂ imperial pint (10 imperial ounces; 284 mL) or 300 mL.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
noun:  A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
noun:  A contest for which a cup is awarded.
noun:  (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
noun:  (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
noun:  (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
noun:  (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
noun:  One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
noun:  Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
noun:  (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
noun:  (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
noun:  (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
noun:  A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
noun:  Anything shaped like a cup.
noun:  (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
noun:  (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
verb:  (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
verb:  (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
verb:  (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
verb:  (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
verb:  (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
noun:  (informal, sports) A particular trophy that is a cup; sometimes with the definite article "the".
noun:  (informal, sports) A win of a championship that is awarded a cup.
noun:  (informal, sports) A win of an event comprising part of the championship, which is awarded a cup
noun:  Initialism of Cambridge University Press.
noun:  Initialism of Committee of Union and Progress.

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