mini cup

English

Noun

mini cup (plural mini cups)

1. Alternative form of minicup
   1. miniature racecar
      • 2016 September 14, Bob Okon, “Race Fan Rally brings NASCAR fans to downtown Joliet”, in The Herald-News:

        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.

      • 2017 June 1, Logan Clow, “Hythe Motor Speedway season kicks off this weekend”, in Alberta Daily Herald Tribune:

        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.

   2. extra-small cup.
      • 1973, Percussive Notes - Volumes 12-15, page 44:

        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.

      • 2011, Kai-Fu Lee, Making a World of Difference:

        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.

      • 2014, Elizabeth Byler Younts, Promise to Cherish: A Novel, →ISBN, page 58:

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