Definition of cup

• n. - A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.
• n. - The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.
• n. - Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.
• n. - That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
• n. - Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
• n. - A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
• v. t. - To supply with cups of wine.
• v. t. - To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
• v. t. - To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.