dixie cup

plural dixie cups

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup.

   He was eating raisins out of a dixie cup.

   2007, Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead, page 49

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   'I wonder if elephants like ice cream?' 'It would need to be a very big dixie cup,' said Jane.

   2004, Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers, page 10

   Once in fourth grade, Principal Lambas made me fill a dixie cup with my own spit

   2006, Tim Miller with Glen Johnson, 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels, page 108

plural Dixie Cups

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup.

   It's an outing for the boy, who walks ahead eating a Dixie Cup fudge sundae. Rubio's business district is a block from the beach, with an area of benches and trees that cars are not allowed to enter.

   1979, Wright Morris, Fire Sermon, →ISBN, page 50

plural Dixie cups · alternative Dixie Cup · alternative dixie cup

1. CanadaUSA disposable paper cup, sometimes waxed, especially used for individual servings of iced desserts.

   One day I was looking at a little girl eating a Dixie cup of strawberry ice cream.

   2010, Carol D. Levine, Panic Child: A Harrowing True Story of Sexual Abuse, →ISBN, page 55