cupcake

noun cupcakes

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

   Similar: fairy cake, queen cake, butterfly cake

2. slang An attractive young woman. Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.

   Similar: babe

3. slang A weak or effeminate man.

   Similar: cockney

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

   Similar: cabbage

5. slang An unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent. Australia need a win to progress, but they have a cupcake in Italy for their last, so they're not likely to miss out.

Similar: pansy, sissy, fox, stunner, heartmate, muffin, sweetie

verb cupcakes · cupcaking · cupcaked

1. intransitive, slang To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately. 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.”
2. rare, slang, transitive To flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to. “I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”
3. transitive To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake. After waving and smiling a quick farewell, I turned back on my way out of the lunchroom – and ran smack into Rusty Kuznevoy, flattening his chocolate cupcake against his chest.[…]Rusty saw the smirk, and I appeared to be snickering at the toughest kid in fourth grade seconds after cupcaking him.[…]M
4. slang, transitive To handle easily and successfully. “Being an independent coach sure, I cupcaked my schedule,” said McGuire.
5. ambitransitive To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills. Maeve joined them in happy admiration of the baby girl, who had just been christened with the name Genesis and was cupcaked for the occasion with endless bits of lace frill.
6. informal, rare, transitive To feed cupcakes. So—we offered a cup cake a day for life to anybody who would find us a better word than the word “market.”[…]She wrote to say that the Farmers Market defies description and asks why we don’t just keep on referring to it as the original Farmers Market and send the cup cakes to some home for under cup
7. informal, intransitive With out: to saturate by cupcakes. Ross, a pastry chef who recently moved from California, reels off half a dozen cupcake bakeries in the Santa Monica area she went to all the time, including one called “Le Cupcake” which opened last fall and prompted one food blogger to ask, “Are we cupcaked out? Is there room for yet another cupcak
8. informal, intransitive To make cupcakes. “I told ’em that you would bake us 30 cupcakes instead.” And so Mrs. Smith cupcaked the other night until 1 a. m.