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coffee-cup

coffee-cup is the alternative form of coffee cup.

Meaning of coffee cup

Noun

coffee cup (plural coffee cups)

  1. A cup, typically a small one, in which coffee can be served.
    • “It’s nothing much, but—well, if you are going, will you tell him——” he dropped his voice to a whisper—“I think I’ve found the extra coffee-cup!”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 144

Forms of coffee-cup

pluralcoffee-cups

Questions about coffee-cup

What is coffee-cup the alternative form of?
Coffee-cup is the alternative form of coffee cup.

Words near coffee-cup in the dictionary

  1. coffee tree
  2. coffee trees
  3. coffee up
  4. coffee'd
  5. coffee-and
  6. coffee-cup
  7. coffee-cups
  8. coffee-ed
  9. coffee-glass
  10. coffee-glasses
  11. coffee-house

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coffee-cup (page history and authors); coffee cup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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