The acronym CUP may refer to:
- California University of Pennsylvania
- Cambridge University Press
- Canadian University Press, the press association of Canadian student newspapers
- Candidatures d'Unitat Popular, a Catalan nationalist movement
- Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York City
- Central Utah Project
- China UnionPay, a payment authorization system common in China
- Clarion University of Pennsylvania
- Columbia University Press
- Committee of Union and Progress İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti, an Ottoman political movement and later party
- Conservative and Unionist Party, a British political party (rare)
- Copper units of pressure, a measurement in internal ballistics
- Cuban peso, ISO 4217 code for one of Cuba's two currencies
- Cupar railway station station code
- Cupertino Middle School, a public middle school in Sunnyvale, California
- Cancer of unknown primary origin
Famous quotes containing the word cup:
“The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 10:16.
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“In poorer lands
No one touches the water of life.
It has no taste
And though it refreshes absolutely
It is a cup that must also pass
Until everybody
Gets some advantage....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)