A cup

noun

A standard, relatively small, bra cup size, consisting of a measurement around the bust that is one inch longer than a measurement around the band, plus five inches.

Meanings

nounA cup (plural A cups)

plural A cups

  1. A standard, relatively small, bra cup size, consisting of a measurement around the bust that is one inch longer than a measurement around the band, plus five inches.

    The smallest cup size is AAA. The largest is a DD/E. An A cup is fairly small, just a little swell of breast tissue.

    1999, Elizabeth M. Hoekstra, M. Beth Cutaiar, Just for Girls
  2. A woman with small breasts (of this cup size).

    Directly after Julia is Patricia, who, oddly enough, is another young blond mother from the suburbs. She, too, is an A cup wanting breast implants.

    2004, Z Paul Lorenc, Trish Hall, A Little Work
    1 more example

    "Gabrielle had always been an A cup, but her pregnancy had left her breasts flat as pancakes, and she wanted to go to a C cup and eliminate some of the sag."

    2003, Michelle Copeland, Change Your Looks, Change Your Life, →ISBN
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