Meaning of cupcake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
2. An attractive young woman.
   slang
3. A weak or effeminate man.
   slang
4. Term of endearment.
   informal

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Examples

“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.”

“Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.”

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

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