Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who carries a cup; a cup-bearer.
  • noun One who applies a cupping-glass.
  • noun A device for making cup-leathers, which are used for packing pumps and hydraulic presses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who performs the operation of cupping.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine, archaic One who performs the operation of cupping.
  • noun slang A coffee aficionado.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cup of tea

Etymologies

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cup +‎ -er

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Examples

  • I did not relish a run-in with the "cupper," having no idea what it was intended to cup.

    Archive 2010-08-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • I did not relish a run-in with the "cupper," having no idea what it was intended to cup.

    BSNYC Product Review: Electra Ticino 8D BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • In my quasi-scientific blind taste test between the two coffee pots using my significant other as my "cupper" one recent Saturday morning, there was no question that the Krups produced better depth of flavor.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • In my quasi-scientific blind taste test between the two coffee pots using my significant other as my "cupper" one recent Saturday morning, there was no question that the Krups produced better depth of flavor.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • I now hardly move from my chair except to make the occasional cupper.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite. 2010

  • Yes, indeed, the very latest equipment to capture and eradicate the debate on whether officers were indeed wearing their hats, speaking out of turn, having a crafty cupper or fag oh and may be a little crime fighting and evidence gathering (of the proper sort) along the way.

    Coming Soon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • I checked the complete CML source code for the CrystelEye entry, and that contains the charges on the two oxygens bound to the cupper too.

    Why chemistry-rich RSS feeds matter... Egon Willighagen 2008

  • Lazybones, and they tell me that thy father was a cupper serving in

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he began Know then, O Commander of the Faithful (Allah prolong to thee glory and dominion!), the report of the folk; that I am known as the Lazybones and that my father left me nothing, is true; for he was, as thou hast said, nothing but a barber-cupper in a Hammam.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I checked the complete CML source code for the CrystelEye entry, and that contains the charges on the two oxygens bound to the cupper too.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

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