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Cupcake

//ˈkʌpkeɪk// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

    "But when he tasted a vanilla-frosted vanilla cupcake from the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. […] Members of Jordan’s royal family stop by the shop in jeans and sweatshirts, ordering boxes of cupcakes while their bodyguards wait outside."

  2. 2
    small cake baked in a muffin tin wordnet
  3. 3
    An attractive young woman. slang

    "Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker."

  4. 4
    A weak or effeminate man. slang
  5. 5
    Term of endearment. informal

    "“Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”"

Verb
  1. 1
    To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately. intransitive, slang

    "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.”"

  2. 2
    To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to. rare, slang, transitive

    "“I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”"

  3. 3
    To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake. transitive

    "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 him.[…]Maybe he’d forgotten all about being cupcaked?[…]I recalled my vow of supremacy from last year, the one I’d made just before I cupcaked Rusty, and I reasoned that my science project could also bring me some redemption for the events of yesterday."

  4. 4
    To handle easily and successfully. slang, transitive

    "“Being an independent coach sure, I cupcaked my schedule,” said McGuire."

  5. 5
    To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills. ambitransitive

    "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."

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  1. 6
    To feed cupcakes. informal, rare, transitive

    "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 cup-caked children."

  2. 7
    With out: to saturate by cupcakes. informal, intransitive

    "Ross, a pastry chef who recently moved from California, reels off half a dozen cupcake bakeries in the Santa Monica area she went to all the time, including one called “Le Cupcake” which opened last fall and prompted one food blogger to ask, “Are we cupcaked out? Is there room for yet another cupcake shop in Southern California?”"

  3. 8
    To make cupcakes. informal, intransitive

    "“I told ’em that you would bake us 30 cupcakes instead.” And so Mrs. Smith cupcaked the other night until 1 a. m."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From cup + cake.

Etymology 2

From cup + cake.

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