Cuppa

//ˈkʌpə// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial

    "I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?"

  2. 2
    a cup of tea wordnet
  3. 3
    Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquial

    "Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune."

  4. 4
    Pronunciation spelling of cup of. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so;[…]and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!"

Synonyms

All synonyms
cup of teacupper

Example

More examples

"I'm sure we'd all be glad of a nice cuppa."

Etymology

Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).

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cuppa joe

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