cupcaking

Verb

cupcake (third-person singular simple present cupcakes, present participle cupcaking, simple past and past participle cupcaked)

1. (intransitive, slang) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
   • I watched Brian as he drove off down the street. I turned and went back inside the studio and found Len at my desk. “I saw you and Brian cupcaking out there.”2011, Deontra Woods, Blood, Sweat and Tears, page 102
2. (rare, slang, transitive) To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to.
   • “I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”2016, Janey Mack, chapter 35, in Choked Up, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, pages 247–248
3. (transitive) To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake.
   • After waving and smiling a quick farewell, I turned back on my way out of the lunchroom – and ran smack into Rusty Kuznevoy, flattening his chocolate cupcake against his chest.[…]Rusty saw the smirk, and I appeared to be snickering at the toughest kid in fourth grade seconds after cupcaking...2008, T. David Lee, 108th Street, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, →ISBN, pages 60, 61, 169, and 199
4. (slang, transitive) To handle easily and successfully.
   • “Being an independent coach sure, I cupcaked my schedule,” said McGuire.1981 January 28, Mike Fish, “College basketball — the power’s at…: UCLA rules, but ACC top conference”, in The Kansas City Times, page D-3
5. (ambitransitive) To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills.
   • Maeve joined them in happy admiration of the baby girl, who had just been christened with the name Genesis and was cupcaked for the occasion with endless bits of lace frill.1997, Lawrence J. Taylor, The Road to Mexico, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 34
6. (informal, rare, transitive) To feed cupcakes.
   • So—we offered a cup cake a day for life to anybody who would find us a better word than the word “market.”[…]She wrote to say that the Farmers Market defies description and asks why we don’t just keep on referring to it as the original Farmers Market and send the cup cakes to some home for under...1942 March 10, Fred Beck, “Farmers Market Bulletin”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXI, page 2

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