Cupcake

/ˈkʌpkeɪk/ · noun

Meaning

A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
2. (slang) An attractive young woman.
3. (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
4. (informal) Term of endearment.
5. (slang, sports) An unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent.
6. (intransitive, slang) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
7. (transitive, slang, rare) To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to.
8. (transitive) To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake.

Example Sentences

But when he tasted a vanilla-frosted vanilla cupcake from the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. […] Members of Jordan’s royal family stop by the shop in jeans and sweatshirts, ordering boxes of cupcakes while their bodyguards wait outside.

Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.

“Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”

Australia need a win to progress, but they have a cupcake in Italy for their last, so they're not likely to miss out.

I watched Brian as he drove off down the street. I turned and went back inside the studio and found Len at my desk. “I saw you and Brian cupcaking out there.”

But I figured Najah was cupcaking with Johan, Chelsea was eating something that didn't match while Greg rubbed her feet, and Kalena wasn't in a space to talk or listen.

She said, “You're always Cupcaking.” I replied, “I'm not cupcaking. I'm enjoying my conversation so hush.” David and I would stay on the phone all night and talk. It was normal for us.

“Luck is cupcaking on Myanna.” His eyebrows shot up. “Cupcaking?” “Old man.” She giggled. “Crushing. Your boy has a big time crush on Myanna.”

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• cupcakes
• cupcaking
• cupcaked

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