How to pronounce “cupping”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (medicine, archaic) The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot.
• (medicine, archaic) A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess.
• (medicine) Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface.
• The taking of a small amount of a beverage such as tea or coffee into the mouth in order to taste it; a session where this is done.
• The act of forming something into a cup shape.
• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of cup

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