cuppa

[kuhp-uh]

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noun British Informal.

a cup of tea.

Origin:
1920–25; reduced form of cup of (tea)

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cuppa or cupper (ˈkʌpə)

—n
	informal (Brit) a cup of tea

cupper or cupper

—n

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cuppa

colloquial shortening of cup of (coffee, etc.) is recorded from 1925; as a stand-alone (almost always with implied tea) it dates from 1934.

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