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.
“The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
Life is a bitter sage,
And we are weary infants
In a palsied age.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)