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cupcake

[ kuhp-keyk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

cupcake

/ ˈkʌpˌkeɪk /

Origin of cupcake¹

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

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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