cupcake

noun

1. 1

   A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

   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.

2. 2

   slangAn attractive young woman.

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

3. 3

   slangA weak or effeminate man.

4. 4

   informalA term of endearment.

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

5. 5

   slangAn unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent.

   Australia need a win to progress, but they have a cupcake in Italy for their last, so they're not likely to miss out.

verb

1. 1

   slangTo flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.

   I watched Brian as he drove off down the street. I turned and went back inside the studio and found Len at my desk. “I saw you and Brian cupcaking out there.”

   But I figured Najah was cupcaking with Johan, Chelsea was eating something that didn't match while Greg rubbed her feet, and Kalena wasn't in a space to talk or listen.

   She said, “You're always Cupcaking.” I replied, “I'm not cupcaking. I'm enjoying my conversation so hush.” David and I would stay on the phone all night and talk. It was normal for us.

   “Luck is cupcaking on Myanna.” His eyebrows shot up. “Cupcaking?” “Old man.” She giggled. “Crushing. Your boy has a big time crush on Myanna.”

2. 2

   rareTo flirt with; to talk or act amorously or intimately to.

   “I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”

   “Quit cupcaking me, sugar.” / She was sure she was imagining the warmth in his deep, crinkly eyes, but her belly did a flip and high-fived her heart, as though she truly had succeeded in making him like her.

   Juan winks at her. "Sorry about my language. The shock paralyzed my thinking and tongue." / She smiles brightly. "No worries. I'm a nurse. I've heard it all." / Is Juan cupcaking the She-Ra, Princess of Power?

3. 3

   To mash a cupcake at; to cover with cupcake.

   So Colin crouched down, allowing her to smash a slightly used cupcake against his nose.[…]Avery took the aprons from him, carefully folding them so more crumbs wouldn’t fall to the already cupcaked snow.

   She grabs another cupcake and quickly smushes it into the side of my face. I put down the camcorder and get her back. We’re now decorated in pink and white frosting. “I want a selfie of us,” she says. I pick up the camera and record us, cupcaked faces squeezed together, as we crack up.

   Got any diabetes jokes you can share with readers? “I never got bullied the same as other kids—my house never got egged. It got cupcaked.” —Geoff Grant (Las Vegas, Nevada)

   The 28th straight win to open the season was greeted with cupcakes purchased by parents who made the spring break trip to Hawaii. “We cupcaked Murph’s face,” catcher Reagan Dykes said. “He didn’t seem too happy about that.” Confirmed. “I ran away from them too,” Murphy said. “I got one in the earhole. I smelled the frosting for like 12 hours.”

4. 4

   slangTo handle easily and successfully.

   “Being an independent coach sure, I cupcaked my schedule,” said McGuire.

   After John Garr popped out, Jeff Ward cupcaked a ball to short for a forceout and Black scored.

   A&M also tackles Louisiana State and Tulsa and further cupcaked its campaign by arranging a game with Division I-AA Middle Tennessee State so it would have a sixth home game, moving Southwestern Louisiana back a year.

   The Tigers have cupcaked their way to a 10-0 start against giant killers like Arkansas State, Monmouth and Charleston Southern.

5. 5

   To cover or be abundant with cake-like decorations such as frills.

   Maeve joined them in happy admiration of the baby girl, who had just been christened with the name Genesis and was cupcaked for the occasion with endless bits of lace frill.

   By nine o’clock that night the snow had begun to fall even harder. Brendon stood on the corner of 87ᵗʰ Street and Stony Island Avenue beneath a green canvas awning now cupcaked with a layer of white.

   It was no longer light, but I still could make out the front yard, which was cupcaked in snow.

   Ahead in the dim dawn rose the white cupcaked dome of the Capitol.

6. 6

   informalTo feed cupcakes.

   So—we offered a cup cake a day for life to anybody who would find us a better word than the word “market.”[…]She wrote to say that the Farmers Market defies description and asks why we don’t just keep on referring to it as the original Farmers Market and send the cup cakes to some home for under cup-caked children.

   Winnie Ellis “cupcaked” her Decorative Stitchery group and Paul Barnett baked enough of her special bran muffins for all of the Meals on Wheels recipients.

   “We grew up here and love this community so anything that we can do to give back we will. We have taken cupcakes to the hospital, outreach groups, the SPCA and even the RCMP and firefighters have been cupcaked,” said [Raj] Singh, noting that they would even like to set up a scholarship for local students.

   Kenny started “You’ve Been Cupcaked” three years ago after she earned a following creating cakes and cupcakes for family members.

7. 7

   informalWith out: to saturate by cupcakes.

   Ross, a pastry chef who recently moved from California, reels off half a dozen cupcake bakeries in the Santa Monica area she went to all the time, including one called “Le Cupcake” which opened last fall and prompted one food blogger to ask, “Are we cupcaked out? Is there room for yet another cupcake shop in Southern California?”

   I love baking cupcakes, but I was starting to feel cupcaked-out.

   She slid a blue mini cupcake with green and teal sprinkles my way. “Try this Neptune’s Nibble.” I said regretfully, “I think I’m cupcaked out.”

8. 8

   informalTo make cupcakes.

   “I told ’em that you would bake us 30 cupcakes instead.” And so Mrs. Smith cupcaked the other night until 1 a. m.

   And make cupcakes. I’ve cupcaked three times in the last few days.

   While many a bakery cupcaked and failed, Robicelli’s continues to withstand the test of time.

Forms

plural

cupcakes

past tense

cupcaked

past participle

cupcaked

present participle

cupcaking

third person singular

cupcakes