dixie cup

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Noun

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dixie cup (plural dixie cups)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup
    • 2004, Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers, page 10:
      'I wonder if elephants like ice cream?' 'It would need to be a very big dixie cup,' said Jane.
    • 2006, Tim Miller with Glen Johnson, 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels, page 108:
      Once in fourth grade, Principal Lambas made me fill a dixie cup with my own spit
    • 2007, Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead, page 49:
      He was eating raisins out of a dixie cup.