mini cup

noun

miniature racecar

Meanings

nounmini cup (plural mini cups)

plural mini cups

  1. Alternative form of minicup.
    1. miniature racecar

      Family Harvest Church out of Tinley Park had a table at Race Fan Rally, along with a mini cup race car with the church’s name on it.

      2016 September 14, Bob Okon, “Race Fan Rally brings NASCAR fans to downtown Joliet”, in The Herald-News
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      Another class for youth returning this year is the Evolution Cup cars, which started at the track last year, Pylypiuk noted. “That's mini cup cars. They're called Evolution Cup cars and what they are is they’re actually a half-scale NASCAR looking car.

      2017 June 1, Logan Clow, “Hythe Motor Speedway season kicks off this weekend”, in Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
    2. extra-small cup.

      She handed a patient the mini cup of medications, and she and Eli watched as he swallowed them down.

      2014, Elizabeth Byler Younts, Promise to Cherish: A Novel, →ISBN, page 58
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      On the other hand, Ride Cymbals are purchased either with big cups (for big band crashing and riding) or with small cups (for sustaining a ride beat) or even with a mini cup or no cup at all.

      1973, Percussive Notes - Volumes 12-15, page 44

      They were smaller than regular Chinese dumplings because my mother placed a tiny tea cup (like those used for the Japanese tea ceremony) upside down on each store-bought flour wrap and divided it into little wraps with the same diameter as the mini cup.

      2011, Kai-Fu Lee, Making a World of Difference
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Chicago

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