cup of coffee
cup of coffee noun: the situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
Noun
cup of coffee (plural cups of coffee)
- The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- I was up for a cup of coffee once; those were the best six days of my career.
- One’s personal preference.
- Since social anthropology is not my cup of coffee, I leave it to the research scholars to discover the true significance of this transformation.1963, Southern Economist, volume 2, page 137
- Synonyms:
- cup of joe
- An invitation to have sex.
- How cheap something is.
- This Wi-Fi jammer costs a cup of coffee.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
- Synonyms:
- cup of tea
Synonyms of cup of coffee
Forms of cup of coffee
| plural | cups of coffee |
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Origin of cup of coffee
Based on the idea that the player was only there long enough to have a cup of coffee.
Questions about cup of coffee
- What does cup of coffee mean?
- Cup of coffee means the situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- What part of speech is cup of coffee?
- Cup of coffee is a noun.
- What is the plural of cup of coffee?
- The plural of cup of coffee is cups of coffee.
Words near cup of coffee in the dictionary
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