dixie cup

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Dixie Cup¹

noun Dixie Cups

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup It's an outing for the boy, who walks ahead eating a Dixie Cup fudge sundae. Rubio's business district is a block from the beach, with an area of benches and trees that cars are not allowed to enter.

dixie cup²

noun dixie cups

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup 'I wonder if elephants like ice cream?' 'It would need to be a very big dixie cup,' said Jane.

Dixie cup³

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Originally a brand name, first used in 1919, after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York.

noun Dixie cups · Dixie Cup · dixie cup

  1. Canada, US A disposable paper cup, sometimes waxed, especially used for individual servings of iced desserts. One day I was looking at a little girl eating a Dixie cup of strawberry ice cream.

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@misc{dixie_cup_2026,
  title = {dixie cup},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dixie%20cup},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}