DAILY UPDATED VOCABULARY WITH PICTURES. CUP.

• cup
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  for drinking

   [countable] a small round container, usually with a handle, that you use to drink tea, coffee etc[↪ saucer]:
• Mathew picked up the cup and sipped his coffee.
• She put her cup and saucer down on the table.
• tea/coffee cup
• Helen took the coffee cups into the kitchen.
• paper/plastic/china etc cup
• They drank cheap wine from plastic cups.
• 2

  drink

   [countable] the liquid contained inside a cup
• cup of
• Let's go and have a cup of coffee.
• Will you stay for a cup of tea?
• Would you like another cup?
• 3

  amount of liquid/food

   [countable]
• a) a unit used in the US for measuring food or liquid in cooking, equal to eightfluid ounces or 237 millilitres:
• Mix the butter with 1 cup of powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
• b) also cupful the amount of liquid or food that a cup can hold:
• Breakfast consisted of half a cup of milk and a dry biscuit.
• 4

  sport competition

• a) [countable] a specially shaped silver container, often with two handles, that is given as a prize in a competition, especially a sports competition:
• The president of the club came to present the cup to the winners.
• b) [singular] a sports competition in which a cup is given as a prize:
• They've won the European Cup twice.
• Germany's World Cup team
• 5

  round thing

   [countable] something round and hollow that is shaped like a cup:
• The flowers' white petals contrast handsomely with their lemon-yellow cups.
• acorn cups
• cup of
• She held it in the cup of her hand.
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  golf

   [countable] American English a hole in the ground that you have to try to hit the ball into in the game of golf
• 7

  clothing

   [countable]
• a) the part of a bra that covers a woman's breast
• b) American English a jockstrap
• 8

  alcohol

   [uncountable and countable] British English a mixed alcoholic drink:
• He's gone to get me some fruit cup.
• 9

   not be your cup of tea

  spoken to not be the type of thing that you like:
• Jazz just isn't my cup of tea - I prefer classical music.
• 10

   in your cups

  British English old-fashioned drunk, or when drunk:
• By the time Anthony arrived, Richard was already deep in his cups.
• ➔ eggcup
• Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
• Advanced Learner's Dictionary.