Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

calcutta cup

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: cal-cut-ta cup
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A trophy won by the winner of the match between England and Scotland in the Six Nations competition.

Example Sentences

"The match was only a few minutes old when the second-row Jonny Gray squared up to [Dylan] Hartley and invited Courtney Lawes to join in. The message was clear: a side that had not won the Calcutta Cup for 10 years were going to fight for everything."

Inflected Forms

Calcutta Cups (plural)

Questions

What does calcutta cup mean?: A trophy won by the winner of the match between England and Scotland in the Six Nations competition.

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