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recup

recup verb: to cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.

Verb

recup (third-person singular simple present recups, present participle recupping, simple past and past participle recupped)

  1. To cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.
    • Seeing that le garçon had by this time recupped the party three times at my expense I was now twenty-four shilling out[.]1930, Lennie Lower, Here's Luck, page 15

Forms of recup

third-person singular presentrecups
present participlerecupping
past participlerecupped
pastrecupped

Origin of recup

From re- + cup.

Questions about recup

What does recup mean?
Recup means to cup again; to supply with cups an additional time.
What part of speech is recup?
Recup is a verb.
What is the past tense of recup?
The past tense of recup is recupped.

Words near recup in the dictionary

  1. recumbents
  2. recumbing
  3. recumbirostran
  4. recumbirostrans
  5. recumbs
  6. recup
  7. recupe
  8. recuped
  9. recuperability
  10. recuperable
  11. recuperance

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