in one's cups
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups."
- "They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses."
- "[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved."
- "The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow."
Inflected Forms
in one’s cups (canonical)