A cup is an open-top container used to hold liquids for pouring or drinking.

Cup, CUP, cups or CUPS may also refer to:

Cooking

Cup (unit), a measure of volume

• Measuring cup, a kitchen utensil

• Cup, a style of English punch

Businesses and organisations

• Cambridge University Press, in England

• Canadian University Press, an association of student newspapers in Canada

• Columbia University Press, in the United States

• Center for Urban Pedagogy, an American nonprofit organization

• China UnionPay, a Chinese financial services corporation

• China University of Petroleum

• City University of Pasay, a university in Metro Manila, Philippines

• Committee of Union and Progress, several revolutionary groups and a political party in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey

• Popular Unity Candidacy (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, CUP), a political party in Catalonia

• Conservative and Unionist Party (full name of the Tory Party)

Games and sports

• Trophy, often a cup, awarded for sporting events

• Athletic cup, protective equipment for male athletes' genitalia

• Cup game, a clapping game that involves tapping and hitting a cup using a defined rhythm

• Cups (game), a form of mancala

• Cups, a fictional game in an episode of the sitcom Friends

• Suit of cups, a suit in tarot cards

• Cups (suit), one of the four suits in Latin-suited playing cards

• Collectif Ultras Paris, a supporters group of Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

• Single-elimination tournament, the most common format of national cups in association football

Music

• "Cups" (song), a song released by Anna Kendrick in 2012, and by others

• "Cups", a song by Roy Nathanson and Debbie Harry from the 2000 album Fire at Keaton's Bar and Grill

• "Cups", a song by Underworld from the 1999 album Beaucoup Fish

Science and technology

• Cancer of unknown primary origin

• CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), a Unix print server

• Consortium for Upper-level Physics Software, a software-development project by Robert Ehrlich and others

• Copper units of pressure, pressure measurements in firearms

• ∪, a symbol used to represent union in set theory

• Cup product

• Cursor Position (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence

Other uses

• Cups (app), a mobile app for coffee

• Cup, a component of bra size

• Comparable uncontrolled price, a method used in transfer pricing

• Central Utah Project, an American federal water project

• Cuban peso, the currency of Cuba, ISO 4217 code CUP

• Cupar railway station, Scotland, station code CUP

• Cup (film), a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language sports drama film

See also

• The Cup (disambiguation)

• Cupp (disambiguation)

• Cup and ring mark, a form of prehistoric art

• Cupping therapy, a form of pseudoscience

• Friendship cup

• Fuddling cup, a three-dimensional puzzle

• Menstrual cup, a menstrual hygiene device

• Silphium perfoliatum or cup-plant, a member of the sunflower family

• Kup (disambiguation)

• Kups (disambiguation)