Word.ws English Dictionary

Pythagorean cups

Pythagorean cups is the plural of Pythagorean cup.

Meaning of Pythagorean cup

Noun

Pythagorean cup (plural Pythagorean cups)

  1. A practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, sometimes used to make statements about greed. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base.
    Synonyms:
    greedy cup, Tantalus cup, beaker of righteousness

Questions about Pythagorean cups

What is Pythagorean cups the plural of?
Pythagorean cups is the plural of Pythagorean cup.

Words near Pythagorean cups in the dictionary

  1. Pythagoras' theorem
  2. Pythagorean
  3. Pythagorean bean
  4. Pythagorean beans
  5. Pythagorean cup
  6. Pythagorean cups
  7. Pythagorean expectation
  8. Pythagorean field
  9. Pythagorean fields
  10. Pythagorean proposition
  11. Pythagorean quadruple

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pythagorean cups (page history and authors); Pythagorean 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Pythagorean cups.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pythagorean_cups. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.