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Definition of Mustache cup
1. Noun. A drinking cup with a bar inside the rim to keep a man's mustache out of the drink.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mustache Cup
Literary usage of Mustache cup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Selection of Cases and Other Authorities Upon Criminal Law by Joseph Henry Beale (1915)
"... known as a mustache cup, the cup being then empty, with the intent that Learoyd
should thereafter use the cup for drinking while the poison was there, ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... known as a 'mustache cup,' the cup being then empty, with the intent that L.
should thereafter use the cup for drinking while the poison was there, ..."
3. From the Front; Trench Poetry edited by Clarence Edward Andrews (1918)
"His upper lip is his idol, Boot dubbin is its pomade; He's tried to sup from a
mustache cup— But he knows his work with ..."
4. From the Front; Trench Poetry by Clarence Edward Andrews (1918)
"His upper lip is his idol, Boot dubbin is its pomade ; He's tried to sup from a
mustache cup— But he knows his work ..."
5. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"... person, constitutes an attempt to commit murder.91 Putting a teaspoonful of
poisonous powder, known as "rough on rats," into an empty mustache cup, ..."
6. Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams (1920)
"... he was on the spot "when the audible celluloid cuff, EP Roe, the pug dog, the
Congress gaiter, the hammer-gun, the safety bicycle, the mustache cup ..."
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