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cupcake

[ kuhp-keyk ]

noun

  1. a small cake, the size of an individual portion, baked in a cup-shaped mold.
  2. Older Slang.
    1. a sexually attractive young woman.
    2. a beloved girl or woman.


cupcake

/ ˈkʌpˌkeɪk /

noun

  1. a small cake baked in a cup-shaped foil or paper case


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cupcake1

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30; cup + cake

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Example Sentences

When I found a cupcake chain paying a higher hourly rate than other local bakeries, I took the job.

From Eater

A Democrat, Guilfoyle made similar “O” cupcakes in 2009 when Barack Obama became president.

Wedding cupcakes may propel a javelin thrower to gold at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.

From Time

Yet 2020 Alabama had no such cupcake, because in the midst of the pandemic, the SEC decided to play only the SEC.

If sucrose were addictive, plain sugar eaten by the spoonful would elicit the same emotional response as a cupcake shared with your kids — but most of us would agree that those are very different eating experiences.

I had one, small bite of a chocolate cupcake, and was on my ass in an hour.

Visitors take turns trying to catch the green paper to win a Hello Kitty cupcake stand.

This was nicely explicated in an Atlantic article whose title says it all: Your Gut Bacteria Want You To Eat A Cupcake.

Magnolia Bakery,  Georgetown Cupcake, and Sprinkles were all gaining scale.

So there was a big imperative for cupcake chains to get large quickly.

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