Noun : claret cup.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He cupped his ear with the palm of his hand. ,He cupped his hands.    From Dictionary.com. 

Tubes running from large backpacks ended in cuplike cones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

One of them leaned toward them, showing a deep cuplike center.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Color of Her Panties]

Look for nests—in cuplike depressions on the forest floor, within 50 feet of an edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

It gleamed dully in the moonlight, a small canister with a flexible cuplike scoop over one end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flinx In Flux]

One expects a Gorean woman, attempting to conceal her features from a man, to place her hands, cuplike, over her nose and mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegades Of Gor]

A few moments of tricky scrambling and he was out in a cuplike depression choked with brush covered with the purplish foliage of Warlock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

The roof here was not flat but sloped inward to a cuplike depression, where he could see the outline of a round opening, perhaps a door of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

On the stones he used for cooling after the quench lay a circular cuplike device with a blunt-very blunt-hook and two bows-most of a morning's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall of Angels]

Shortly, we topped a low range of hills, and beyond, in a cuplike valley, was the herd of sleek beauties feeding contentedly on the lush green grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference

The mechanics of this can be understood by thinking of a digital camera sensor as a flat sheet of material pocked with millions hence “mega” of cylindrical, cuplike pixels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupcakes and camera pixels] Reference

Thus the phone company effectively fought off the competitive challenge posed by the Hush-a-Phone, a sort of small cuplike attachment put around the mouthpiece to increase the privacy of the speaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commanding Heights] Reference

But instead of pouring juice from the Thermos into its cuplike top, instead of lifting that cuplike top to her mouth, he gripped her neck harder and tipped her head backwards and brought the Thermos up to her mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

The spindle is held by the sleeve, g, which latter is screwed into the spindle rail, S, this being moved by the pinion, a; the collar is elongated upwards in a cuplike form, c, the better to hold the oil, and keep it from flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference

She looked down on the cuplike lake, shimmering in the sun below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Together] Reference

She bent her bright head and kissed the swell of her cuplike breasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

But first the pollen grains collect in tiny cuplike sections of the flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference

The cemetery is not in the cuplike valley, but on the side and summit of a gentle hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Backward Glance at Eighty]

It had three large petals, curving cuplike, of a whiteness purer than new-fallen snow, and a heart of rich, warm gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow Trail] Reference

Let the yolk nestle into the cuplike center of the separator, and the white will drop through the slots into the bowl beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

Currently, researchers at ILABS secure babies with nylon caps with suction-cuplike electrodes that can read their neuronal activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Through an opening in the wayside pines he could see, a few hundred yards away, a cuplike hollow in the hillside of the vividest green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

In the course of a ramble on foot in a remote district I came to a small ancient town, set in a cuplike depression amidst high wood-grown hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and fus which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles]

Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference

In its cuplike hollow, the sink of its waters, salt and bitter as all pools without an outlet, waxes and wanes within a wide margin of bleaching reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Antelope] Reference

With this treasure to hark them forward, on and on sailed the ships; and now land birds came to them, and now they passed, floating upon the water, the leafy branch of a strange tree with red, cuplike blossoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Mortimer] Reference

The interface consists of a small cuplike structure about one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter that is surgically implanted at the end of the nerve, relaying both motor and sensory signals from the nerve to the prosthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

Beyond was a fairy hollow, a cuplike depression, curtained from the world by the red vines that hung from the trees upon its brim, and carpeted with the gold of a great maple; and here Fear became a giant with whom it was vain to wrestle.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Have and to Hold] Reference

But in a liquid, though the particles are still held together, they do not cling so tightly, but are able to roll or glide round each other, so that when you pour water out of a cup on to a table, it loses its cuplike shape and spreads itself out flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference

N. - cuplike hollow on hipbone to receive thighbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

It was a cuplike cavity in the branching shoulder of one of Segrana’s colossal pillar trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 3rd Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference

A cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hound of the Baskervilles] Reference

Green in a cuplike hollow of the down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference

A cuplike valley far below us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference