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cuppers

cuppers is the plural of cupper.

Meaning of cupper

Noun (1)

cupper (plural cuppers)

  1. (in-compounds, informal) Someone with a specific bra size.
    • She is a C-cupper.
  2. (slang) A coffee aficionado.
    • Not every cupper understands all the fuss.2008 May 29, Hannah Wallace, “Do I Detect a Hint of ... Joe?”, in New York Times
  3. (obsolete) A cupbearer.

Noun (2)

cupper (plural cuppers)

  1. (archaic) One who performs the operation of cupping.

Noun (3)

cupper (plural cuppers)

  1. An intercollegiate sporting competition, open to all colleges.
    • We drew with Keble in the Cupper (3-3), and on the replay lost (0-2); […]1914, The Oxford Magazine, volume 32, page 347

Proper noun capitalized: Cuppers

Cuppers

  1. (standard, historically slang) Any one of several intercollegiate sporting competitions at Oxford University or Cambridge University.

Origin of cuppers

From cup + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

Questions about cuppers

What does cuppers mean?
Cuppers means any one of several intercollegiate sporting competitions at Oxford University or Cambridge University.
What is cuppers the plural of?
Cuppers is the plural of cupper.
What part of speech is cuppers?
Cuppers is a proper noun.

Words near cuppers in the dictionary

  1. cuppa
  2. cuppa joe
  3. cuppas
  4. cupped
  5. cupper
  6. cuppers
  7. Cuppett
  8. Cuppetts
  9. cuppiness
  10. cupping
  11. cupping glass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuppers (page history and authors); Cuppers (page history and authors); cupper (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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