# cups

Pronunciation: US say "KUPS" /kʌps/; UK

## Noun

1. Plural of cup. — plural of cup
   - Simple: Plural of cup. Use this form when you mean more than one cup.
   - _The café ran out of clean cups during the morning rush._
   - _He arranged the cups beside the coffee machine before opening._
3. A suit of the minor arcana in a tarot deck, marked by the symbol of a cup or chalice.
   - Simple: One of the sets of cards in a tarot deck, marked with the picture of a drinking cup.
   - _Most of the cards in her reading were Cups, so the reader steered the conversation toward love and friendship._
   - _She turned over the Queen of Cups near the center of the layout._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of cup. — third-person singular simple present indicative of cup
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of cup. Use this form with he, she, or it.
   - _The goalkeeper cups the ball against his chest to stop play._
   - _She cups her ear, straining to hear the distant melody._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cups (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).