dixie cup

See also: Dixie cup and Dixie Cup

English

Noun

dixie cup (plural dixie cups)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dixie cup
   • 2004, Kerry Greenwood, Queen of the Flowers, page 10:

     'I wonder if elephants like ice cream?' 'It would need to be a very big dixie cup,' said Jane.

   • 2006, Tim Miller with Glen Johnson, 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels, page 108:

     Once in fourth grade, Principal Lambas made me fill a dixie cup with my own spit

   • 2007, Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead, page 49:

     He was eating raisins out of a dixie cup.